Module ARA2162 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA2162: Political Economy of Development in the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module will introduce you to the main themes and dynamics in the political economy of the Middle East, at the domestic, regional and global levels. The purpose is to develop an understanding of processes of development in the Middle East and of the way these processes have shaped the existing economic, social and political realities of the region. In addition, this module will enhance your abilities to critically analyse and engage with scholarly material as well as your communication skills through class participation and group presentations. Finally, on completion of this module, you will be able to more deeply understand media reports and news on issues of political economy in the Middle East.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate an awareness and understanding of some of the politics of economic development; 2. effectively explain the economic factors in domestic and regional politics; 3. cogently discuss the domestic and international political economy of oil and gas; 4. describe the main factors affecting the political economy of regional integration; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 5. connect political and economic factors and dynamics in their domestic-international linkages; 6. draw from broader concepts in political economy of development; |
Personal and Key Skills | 7. demonstrate skills of reasoned and supported argumentation in writing and in oral presentation; 8. demonstrate skills of independent research and teamwork; and 9. demonstrate skills of finding, analysing and synthesising information from a range of sources. |
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, Gilbert. The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (London: Saqi, 2013).
Ayubi, Nazih. Over-stating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East(London: I.B. Tauris, 1995).
Hanieh, Adam. Lineages of Revolt. Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013).
Henry, Clement, and Robert Springborg. Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2nd ed.).
Richards, Alan, John Waterbury, Melani Cammett and Ishac Diwan. A Political Economy of the Middle East (Oxford: Westview, 3rd edition updated, 2013).
United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Arab Human Development Reports. Available at: (http://www.arab-hdr.org/).