POLS527

The paper will familiarise students with the most important strategic issues in the Middle East. It will offer a critical inquiry into the origins and dynamics of strategic issues in the Middle East. In this way the paper will analyse the Iran-Iraq War; the Gulf War; the Sinai Campaign; the Six Day War; the Yom Kippur War as well as the Israel-Arab conflict, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and terrorism.