POLI 341 Lecture Notes - League Of Nations Mandate, San Remo Conference, Ottoman Empire
20 Sep 2013
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Turkey and iran are not part of the arab world so they are sometimes not included when we talk about the middle east. Some maps will include the north african region. Readings will refer to it as mena (middle east and north africa region). Conflict will not just be between states, but between civilizations or cultures. Huntington"s theory was developed in 93 right after the cold war: competition between ideologies, civilizations that huntington refers to are the west, islam, confucian, Foresaw bloody borders between the west and islam: influenced domestic and international foreign policy, crackdown on human rights groups (western liberal values being imposed). Said: orientalism as main work, responded in a piece to huntington. Does civilizations make sense as a level of analysis: perhaps due more to interests than identities. Responding to cold war state interests from a regions/groups based policy making rather than identity based policy.
