hi all,
this is your reading reminder for Tuesday. You are responsible for C5, session 2 (we are skipping session 1 for now, as it will be assigned sporadically throughout the seemster--these are the Arab Uprisings readings). See below, and start with the first two readings (Gerner and Linz), though it is a good idea to do the entire reading and then refresh your memory with another read for the following week. Taking notes will be crucial from now on as the material will get a bit more complex.
on Tuesday, please turn in a hard copy of the one-page Reflection paper on the "Orientalism" documentary you watched last Tuesday.
in class, we will complete C3 and C4. We will introduce C5, and complete it right before the midterm exam, which will cover all readings up to C5. Your midterm is on the 16th of October. fun times.
see you soon!
(c5) Politics, the State, and Authoritarian Rule (2 Sessions)
Session 2: Authoritarian Rule
Readings:
- Deborah J. Gerner, Chapter 4, “Middle Eastern Politics,” in Deborah J. Gerner and Jillian Schwedler, eds., Understanding the Contemporary Middle East (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004). [Text]
- Juan Linz, “Authoritarian Regimes,” Handbook of Political Science, 1975. [CW]
- Jill Crystal, “Authoritarianism and its Adversaries in the Arab World,” in World Politics, 46 (January 1994), pp. 262-289. [CW]
- Marsha Pripstein Posusney, “The Middle East’s Democracy Deficit in Comparative Perspective,” in Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and Resistance (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). [CW]
Questions & Issues to Consider: Is authoritarian rule unique to the Middle East? What produces authoritarian rule? What sustains it? How does authoritarian rule affect state-opposition dynamics? Is there a relationship between levels/kinds of authoritarianism and extremist opposition? What are the bases of conflict in the Middle East?
beirut at night, from Carnegie Endownment office building, where i was Visiting Scholar.
