GFCP741: Advanced Readings in Middle East Politics

Spring 2000—W 2-4:30

Professor William B. Quandt

Office Hours: Wed 10-12, Cabell 255

Tel.: 924-7896

e-mail: wbq8f@virginia.edu

Class Home Page: http://toolkit.virginia.edu/GFIR741-1

WBQ Home Page: www.people.virginia.edu/~wbq8f

Middle East Studies Home Page:http:// itc.cti.virginia.edu/~wbq8f/MESP.html

The purpose of this course is to introduce students of Middle East politics to some of the classic works in the field and to major approaches to comparative political analysis. To take the course, students should have some background in Middle East studies and/or graduate student standing. Undergraduates will need permission of the instructor.

We will read approximately one book (and sometimes an article and book review as well) per week. Each student will prepare a short paper (2-3 pages single-spaced) on each week’s assignment. It should be sent by e-mail, or delivered to my office, so that I receive it by 5:00 p.m. on the Tuesday before class meets. Your grade in the class will be based on both the papers and your in-class participation.

The books by Lewis, Hourani, Said, Ayubi, Lustick, Waldner and Chaudhry should be available in the bookstore. For articles on e-reserve, go to the class home page and check under materials.

January 19: Introduction

January 26: B. Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey

February 2: A. Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age

February 9: E. Said, Orientalism; B. Lewis response, e-reserve

February 16: Early Social Science

Almond and Coleman, e-reserve

Rustow, e-reserve

One of the following:

--D. Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society

--M. Halpern, The Politics of Social Change in the Middle East and North

Africa

--M. Hudson, The Precarious Republic (Lebanon)

--J. Waterbury, Commander of the Faithful (Morocco)

--F. Frey, The Turkish Political Elite

--M. Zonis, The Political Elite of Iran

--W. Quandt, Revolution and Political Leadership: Algeria 1954-1968

February 23: Political Sociology and Class Analysis

B. Moore and Y. Sadowski, e-reserve

One of the following:

--H. Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements in Iraq

------------, The Syrian Peasantry, the Descendants of its Lesser Rural

Notables….

--Y. Nakash, The Shi’is of Iraq

--E. Ozbudun, Social Change and Political Participation in Turkey

--I. Harik, The Political Mobilization of Peasants (Egypt)

--E. Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions

--G. Robinson, Building a Palestinian State

--R. Bianchi, Unruly Corporatism: Association Life in Twentieth Century

Egypt

--L. Anderson, The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya

--R. Hinnebusch, Authoritarian Power and State Formation in Baathist Syria

--A. Burja, The Politics of Stratification (South Yemen)

March 1: Values, Culture and Ideology

Hudson and Anderson on culture, e-reserve

One of the following:

--R. Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet (Iran)

--F. Ajami, The Arab Predicament

------------, Dream Palace of the Arabs

--O. Roy, The Failure of Political Islam

--N. Berkes, The Development of Secularism in Turkey

--G. Shimoni, The Zionist Ideology

--S. Arjomand, The Turban for the Crown (Iran)

--R. Khalidi, Palestinian Identity

--G. Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt

--R. Malley, The Call from Algeria

--Y. Ezrahi, Rubber Bullets (Israel)

--W. Laqueur, Zionism

--A. Shryock, Nationalism and Genealogical Imagination (Jordan)

--M. Boroujerdi, Iranian Intellectuals and the West

--A. Meneley, Tournaments of Value (Yemen)

March 8: Political Economy

Przeworski and Limongi on e-reserve

L. Anderson, Intro. and Part I, e-reserve

One of the Following:

--Y. Sadowski, Political Vegetables? (Egypt)

--Alan Richards and John Waterbury, The Political Economy of the Middle

East

--I. Harik, Economic Policy Reform in Egypt

--C. Henry, The Mediterranean Debt Crescent

--J. Waterbury, Exposed to Innumerable Delusions (Egypt and Turkey)

-----------------. The Egypt of Nasser and Sadat

--V. Perthes, The Political Economy of Syria under Asad

--G. Gause, Oil Monarchies

--R. Vitalis, When Capitalists Collide

March 22: N. Ayubi, Over-stating the Arab State

J. Scott on e-reserve

March 29: I. Lustick, Unsettled States

April 5: D. Waldner, State Building and Late Development

April 12: K. Chaudhry, The Price of Wealth

April 19: Democratization, Institutional, Post-Modernist and Feminist Perspectives

D. Rustow, J. Waterbury and F. Zakariyya on democratization, e-reserve

One of the following:

--A. al-Azmeh, Islams and Modernities

--L. Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam

--D. Singerman, Avenues of Participation (Egypt)

--L. Brand, Women, the State and Political Liberalization

--L. Wedeen, Ambiguities of Domination (Syria)

--Y. Zerubavel, Recovered Roots (Israel)

--Y. Yishai, Between Flag and Banner (Israel)

--F. Mernissi, Islam and Democracy

--W. Quandt, Between Ballots and Bullets (Algeria)

--B. Baktiari, Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran

--M. Herb, All in the Family (Gulf monarchies)

--A. Baaklini, et.al., Legislative Politics in the Arab World

April 26: Concluding Session