POLITSC 4327 Study Guide - Final Guide: Statism, Western Europe, Islamic Inheritance Jurisprudence
11 Sep 2015
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Ps 4327: final exam study guide (summer 2015) Key scientific and cultural achievements: scientific method, printing and paper, trade (of ideas and of product) with the west. Contribution to the west (via crusades and spain) Power shift to w europe due to innovation and exploration. Three competing responses to this in mena region. Wwi and the contradictory promises of the british. British and french colonial rule under the mandate system. Definition: manmade constraints shaping human behavior ( rules of the game ) Path dependence: depends on previous ones, hard to change. Timur kuran argument about islamic economic institutions (waqfs, contracts, inheritance) Definition of statism as developmental model and reasons for its emergence. Rise of statism in turkey (ataturk), iran (pahlavi), and arab world (nasser among others) Failure of statism and politics of structural reform/liberalization. Legacies of state-led development, and attempts to undo it in mena region. Rise of resource nationalism and formation of opec.
