DWA 336 Religion, Ideology, and Democracy in the Middle East

This is an advanced seminar on the relationship between religion ideology and democracy in the Middle East; it presupposes background knowledge of the region and only basic exposure to comparative politics. The course surveys the historical and political trajectories of selected nationalisms and Islamist ideologies in the Middle East: Pan-Arabism various Arab territorial nationalisms Zionisms Turkish nationalisms Kurdish nationalisms and various strains of Islamism.