TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Hasan Ünal
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) have the knowledge about the socio-political structure and post-revolutionary transformation of Iran. 2) understand Iran's regional position and role. 3) discuss how Iran's foreign policy affects regional and global relations.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	No recommended optional programme components.
COURSE DEFINITION	Course Description: In this course we deal with Middle Eastern politics from the end of the First World War to the present time. We begin with a lecture on the end of the Ottoman era and the British and French takeover of former Ottoman territories. We then carry on with Middle Eastern politics in the inter-war era concentrating in particular on Iran, Turkey, Syria and Saudi Arabia, as well as Egypt and the Palestine Mandate, and move on to the political developments in the region after the Second War. We look at the de-colonization process in the Middle East and major political developments in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Egypt as well as the conflict between the Arabs and Israel, and then we focus on the radicalization of Arab politics in the 1970s. We examine the period of upheaval in the 1970s and 1980s with special reference to the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and the Israeli-Palestinian relations in the post-Cold War era. We?ll hold lectures on the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab Spring events across the region with special focus on Syria war, 2011, to the present.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week End of Ottoman Era and British and French takeover of the Middle East (149-170) 2nd Week Reform in Turkey and Iran in the inter-war era (175-192) 3rd Week Arab struggle for independence in Egypt, Syria, and the establishment of Saudi Arabia to 1945 (217-238) 4th Week The Palestine Mandate and the Birth of Israel (239-270) 5th Week The Middle East after the Second World War: Turkey and Iran (275-300) 6th Week The Middle East in the Age of Nasser of Egypt (323-344) 7th Week Israel and the Palestinians from the establishment of Israel to 1970 (345-368) 8th Week Time of upheaval: 1970s to 2000s: Consolidation of authoritarian rule in Syria and Iraq: the regimes of Hafiz el-Assad and Saddam Husayn (397-420) 9th Week The Islamic Revolution of Iran and after (423-450) 10th Week The Palestinian Uprising and the 1991 Gulf War (472-498) 11th Week Israeli-Palestinian relations since the 1991 Gulf War (499-526) 12th Week The US invasion of Iraq and after 13th Week The Arab Spring and its aftermath 14th Week Syria War and its repercussions, 2001 to the present 15th Week Turkey and the Middle East with special reference to Turkish policy towards the war in Syria 16th Week
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Required book: William Cleveland and Martin Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 40 Total(%) 40 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 40 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 60 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 1 1 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 4 56 Preparation for Final exam 1 30 30 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 1 1 Homework Total Workload 150 Total Workload / 30 5 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No