POL 371 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Institution:

Rider University

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Description:

3 credits The course will begin by introducing the main players: the deeply religious patrimonial Arab regimes on the one hand, and the democratic, deeply secular and economically modern Jewish sector in Palestine on the other. The analysis will focus on the impact of the social, economic, political and religious differences between the sides on their conception of the conflict among the participants and powers outside the region. It will concurrently examine the impacts on the dynamics of the conflict itself, extension to include the entire Arab world, and way traffic between it and relations within Islam on the one hand and between Islam and the West on the other. The latter part of the course will consider the sources of perceptual shift that led simultaneously to the narrowing of the conflict with the withdrawal of some of its participants (most Arab states) and its widening with the addition of Al Queada and Iran (via Hezbullah) and the events in Iraq.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rider.edu

Phone Number:

(609) 896-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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