The following post is for my students at ISU in Marburg 2016.

Welcome to:

Authoritarian Politics and Democratization in the Middle East: From the 1990s to the Arab Spring

Assignments

Class	Topic	Case(s)	Readings
1	Introduction
2	Middle Eastern Exceptionalism & Political Culture		1
3	Coercive Institutions	Syria & Libya	2
4	Rentier Politics & Map Quiz	Saudi Arabia	3
5	Elections and Authoritarian Politics	Egypt & Tunisia	4
6	Political Liberalization and Authoritarian Politics	Jordan	5
7	Consociational Politics	Lebanon & Iraq	6
8	Gender	Iran	7 & 8
9	The United States

Y. Sadowski, “The New Orientalism in the Democracy Debate” Middle East Report No. 183 p.1-7
Bassam Haddad Syria’s Curious Dilemma Middle East Report On Line Vol. 35, 2005 http://www.merip.org/mer/mer236/syrias-curious-dilemma
Steffen Hertog A Rentier Social Contract: The Saudi Political Economy since 1979 Middle East Institute October 2009 http://www.mei.edu/content/rentier-social-contract-saudi-political-economy-1979
Marsha Pripstein Posusney, “Behind the Ballot Box: Electoral Engineering in the Arab World” Middle East Report, No. 209, (Winter, 1998), pp. 12-15+42
Curtis Ryan, Reform Retreats Amid Jordan’s Political Storms, Middle East Report On Line, June 10, 2005 http://www.merip.org/mero/mero061005
Canadians For Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Factsheet: Understanding Lebanese Confessionalism Factsheet Series No. 26, May 2007 http://www.cjpmo.org/DisplayDocument.aspx?DocumentID=47
Ervand Abrahamian Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived Middle East Report No. 250, 2009 http://www.merip.org/mer/mer250/why-islamic-republic-has-survived
Deniz Kandiyoti Women, “Islam and the State” Middle East Report No.173 1991

Presentation Schedule:

Class #4 21-Jul
Syria: Emily & Sam

Class #5 22-Jul
Libya: Hanna & Dorathee

Class #6 25-Jul

Saudi Arabia: Shouq & Aisha
Egypt: Bobby & John

Class #7 26-Jul

Tunisia: Blake & Aysha & Dan
Lebanon: Rachel and Ahmed

Class #8 27-Jul
Iran: Jonathan and Jesse

Iran: Rose-Helen & Johdalys