- Docente: Massimiliano Trentin
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Relations (cod. 8782)
Course contents
The course is divided into two sections (20h each). At the end of
every week, a seminar will be held where students (single or in
group) will present and debate their papers on the topics they
chose at the beginning of course.
The first section deals with the relationship between
processes of economic and social development and the Arab uprisings
since 2011. Such events will be analyzed through an historical
and comparative perspective in order to detect
the continuities and discontinuities of the current set of
transformations as well as the role of international factors.
The second section of the course will focus on the case-study
of Syria: the history of the international relations of the Arab
country, the construction and development of the Ba'thist
regime across time and the eruption of the conflict since
2011
Readings/Bibliography
For all students:
1. One section of: Louise Fawcett (eds.)
International Relations of the Middle East, Third Edition, Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 2013
2. James L. Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History, Third Edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 (only for those who did not attend any course on the history of the Middle East before)
For Attender students one monograph, for Non-Attender students one monograph for every Focus to choose from:
Focus on Economy, Society and Revolts
Maria Cristina Paciello, Intorduzione all'economia del mondo arabo, Nuova Cultura, Roma, 2010
Samir Aita, Le travailleurs arabes hors-la-loi, l'Harmattan, Paris, 2011
Charles Tripp, Islam and the Moral Economy. The Challenge of
Capitalism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006
Joel Beinin, Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001
James L. Gelvin, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2011
Massimiliano Trentin (eds.) "I conflitti nel mondo arabo all'epoca delle rivolte", Dossier, Afriche e Orienti, n. 1/2, 2013
Leonardo Paggi (a cura di), Le Rivolte Arabe e le repliche della storia, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2014Focus on Syria
Lorenzo Trombetta, Siria. Dagli ottomani agli Asad. E oltre, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2013
Raymond Hinnebusch, Syria: Revolution from Above, Routledge, 2001
Teaching methods
The course will adopt a multiple set of teaching instruments: Frontal lectures and Seminar, Power Points presentations, Analysis of Archival documents, Films and Documentaries
Assessment methods
Attenders (90% of lessons, at least)
The final result is the sum of the Course Attendance (25%), Oral Presentation+written essay (25%) and the final Oral Exam (50%): the questions will deal with the the text-book (1 question) and the monograph chosen (1 question).
Non-Attenders
The evaluation exam will consist on an Oral Exam of 4 questions: relating to the main text (2 questions) and the two monographs (2 questions)
Teaching tools
Other bibliography for the Seminars will be provided by the professor and uploaded on the AMS Campus Alma DL, Power Points presentations, Audiovisual documentaries
Office hours
See the website of Massimiliano Trentin