ATS2858 Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   illustrate and analyse the impacts of historical, political, economic and social pressures on the current political dynamics of the Middle East and North Africa;

2. 2

   identify, analyse and evaluate the dynamics of relations between the internal politics of the Middle East and external factors;

3. 3

   engage constructively in debates on controversial and sensitive topics in both oral and written formats relating to the politics of the Middle East and North Africa;

4. 4

   comprehend and engage constructively with current affairs, scholarly articles and books in the field of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and place them in an appropriate theoretical and empirical context;

5. 5

   apply theoretical perspectives and concepts to illuminate and examine a new or existing problem in the study of Middle Eastern and North African politics.