Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC3091: Foreign Policy in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

1. MENA state relations with Colonial powers

2. Cold War in the MENA region

3. MENA region after 1991: US Hegemony

4. Foreign Policy in a sub-system

5. Egypt: Pan Arabism to National Interest

6. Israel: Survival in a hostile neighbourhood

7. Iran: From American ally to Revolution exporter

8. Saudi Arabia: Ideologically motivated FP

9. Kuwait, Qatar and UAE: The Super Rentiers

10. Turkey: Introspective to Neo-Ottomanism

11. Tunisia: European looking and diversifying

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	128

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity	11	11 x 1 hour lectures
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity	11	11 x 1 hour lectures
Guided independent study	55	Reading assignments, preparing responses for seminar questions and composing entries for online discussion forum
Guided independent study	45	Research and composition of essay
Guided independent study	28	Group research and preparation of student-led seminar

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).