POLS 225: Comparative Politics in the Middle East & North Africa

Semester Hours 3.0

Interaction of culture, economy, society, intellectual and ideological currents, international environment, and the nature of change and nation-building in selected nations of the Middle East and North Africa. Emphasis on Egypt, Iran, and Turkey; the Levant states of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria; the Gulf states of Iraq and Saudi Arabia; and Algeria in North Africa. This course satisfies the Global core requirement.