Paper details
Guidelines :
1. Provide a summary for each reading in no less than 150 words
2. Provide your own analysis for the readings combined in about 300-400 words. Your analysis is expected to include the following:
a. The validity and the value of the analysis provided by the readings towards the explanation of Middle East international politics.
b. How much of complementarity or conflict between the readings.
c. A final comment on the topic(s) addressed by the respective week’s readings.
These are the Readings
1. Giacomo Luciani, Oil and political economy in the international relations of the Middle East, Ch. 4 in Fawcett (Reserve)
2. Charles Tripp, The foreigh policy of Iraq, Ch. 8 in Hinnebusch and Ehteshami (ed.) (Reserve)
3. F. Gregory Cause III, The foreign policy of Saudi Arabia, Ch. 9 in Hinnebusch and Ehteshami (ed.), (Reserve)
4. Anoushiravn Ehteshami, The foreign policy of Iran, Ch. 13 in Hinnebusch and Ehteshami (ed.) (pp. 283-310) (Reserve)
5. Kayhan Barzegar, Iran’s Foreign Policy in Post-Invasion Iraq, Middle East Policy, 2008. (Blackboard)
