Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ARAM198: Political Economy of the Gulf

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 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
Class discussions	Weekly	1-7; 9	Verbal feedback

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
50	0	50

...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
Essay	50	5,000 words	1-9	Written feedback
Individual presentations (x2)	50	15-20 minutes each + 1,000-word document summarising main points	1-9	Verbal and written feedbacks
	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
Essay	Essay (5,000 words)	1-9	August/September reassessment period
Individual presentations (x2)	Individual presentations (2 x 15-20 minutes) - see re-assessment note below	1-9	August/September reassessment period

Re-assessment notes

For the purposes of re-assessment, the number of presentations depends on how many were missed (i.e. 2 presentations missed means 2 separate presentations that must be re-assessed).

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.

Achcar, G. The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (London: Saqi, 2013)

Beblawi, H. and G. Luciani. The Rentier State (London: Croom Helm, 1987)

Cammett, M., I. Diwan, A. Richards and J. Waterbury. A Political Economy of the Middle East (Oxford: Westview, 4^th edition, 2015)

Crystal, J. Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Dresch, P. and J. Piscatori (eds.), Monarchies and Nations: Globalization and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005)

Gause, F. G. Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994)

Hanieh, A. Money, Markets and Monarchies. The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Henry, C. M. and R. Springborg. Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2^nd edition, 2010)

Hertog, S. Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia (Ithaca [NY]: Cornell University Press, 2010)

Keshavarzian, Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Khalaf, A., O. Alshehabi and A. Hanieh. Transit States. Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf (London: Pluto Press, 2014)

Naqeeb (al-), K. Society and State in the Gulf and Arab Peninsula (London: Routledge, 1990)