Module ARA3163 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA3163: Politics and Reform in the Gulf
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Class discussion | Weekly, during lectures | 1-5, 7-8 | Direct feedback in seminar |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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0 | ||||
2 group presentations | 50 | 15-20 minutes each + 2 page document summarising main points | 1-8 | Written feedback |
Essay | 50 | 2500 words | 1-5,7-8 | Written feedback |
0 | ||||
0 | ||||
0 |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Group presentation | Individual presentation to module convenor | 1-8 | August/Sept re-assessment period |
Essay | Essay (2500 words) | 1-5, 7-8 | August/Sept re-assessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Key Reading:
Davidson, Christopher (ed.). Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies (London: Hurst, 2011).
Foley, Sean. The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2010).
Nonneman, Gerd, 'Political Reform in the Gulf Monarchies: From Liberalisation to Democratisation? A Comparative Perspective', in Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Steven Wright (eds.), Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies (Reading: Ithaca Press, 2008), pp. 3-45.
Indicative reading list:
The Middle East and North Africa 2013 (London: Routledge, 2012): chapters on Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE. This reference work provides a descriptive account of the political histories of these states - as well as lots of information on the economy, and directories of political parties, media organisations, etc, plus a bibliography on each of these states.
Aarts, Paul & Gerd Nonneman (eds.). Saudi Arabia in the Balance (London: Hurst, 2005) Abrahamian, Ervand. A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Al-Rasheed, Madawi. A History of Saudi Arabia (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Axworthy, Michael. Revolutionary Iran (London: Allen Lane, 2013).
Ayubi, Nazih. Over-stating the Arab State: politics and society in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris, 1995).
Beblawi, Hazem & Giacomo Luciani (eds.). The Rentier State (London: Croom Helm, 1987).
Champion, Daryl. The Paradoxical Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform (London: Hurst, 2003).
Crystal, Jill. Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar (Cambridge University Press, 1995). Davidson, Christopher. The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2005).
Davidson, Christopher. Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success (London: Hurst, 2008).
Davidson, Christopher. After the Sheikhs. The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies (London: Hurst, 2012).
Dodge, Toby. From War to a New Authoritarianism (London: Routledge, 2013).
Dresch, Paul & James Piscatori (eds), Monarchies and Nations. Globalisation and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf (London: I. B. Tauris, 2005).
Fromherz, Allen J. Qatar. A Modern History (London: I. B. Tauris, 2012).
Gause, F. Gregory. Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994).
Herb, Michael. All in the Family. Absolutism, Revolution and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies (SUNY Press, 1999).
Hertog, Steffen. Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010).
Kamrava, Mehran & Zahra Babar (eds). Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf (London: Hurst, 2012).
Kostiner, Joseph (ed.). Middle East Monarchies (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2000).
Lacroix, Stéphane. Awakening Islam. The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (Harvard University Press, 2011).
Moore, Pete. Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
al-Naqeeb, Khaldun. Society and State in the Gulf and Arab Peninsula (London: Routledge, 1990). Niblock, Tim. Saudi Arabia: Power, Legitimacy and Survival (London: Routledge, 2006).
Stansfield, Gareth. Iraq: People, History, Politics (Oxford: Polity, 2007).
Teitelbaum, Joshua (ed.), Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf (London: IB Tauris, 2009)
Tetreault, Mary-Ann. Stories of Democracy: Politics & Society in Contemporary Kuwait (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
Valeri, Marc. Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State (London: Hurst, 2009).