Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3252: Violence and Conflict in the Middle East

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

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.

Barash, D.P. & C. Webel (2002) Peace and Conflict Studies. London: Sage Publications Ltd

Tilly, C. (2003) The Politics of Collective Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Cammett, M. (2015) A Political Economy of the Middle East. Boulder: Westview Press

Dalacoura, K. (2011) Islamist Terrorism and Democracy in the Middle East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press

Fawcett, L. (ed) (2009) International Relations of the Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Halliday, F. (1996) Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East, London: I. B. Tauris

Halliday, F. (2005) The Middle East in International Relations: Power Politics & Ideology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Kamrava, M. (2011) The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War. London: California University Press Ltd.

Milton-Edwards, B. (2006) Contemporary Politics in the Middle East. Cambridge: Polity

Said, E.  (1978) Orientalism, New York: Vintage Books.