HIS 1111 Lecture 11: The Postwar Middle East 1945-1979
25 Nov 2017
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We will revisit our core regional themes: postcolonial development, Cold war turbulence, political culture, and inequality as we engage our own stereotypes to decipher an area the west often views as. A lot of our perceptions of the region are distorted. We will explore the same themes we examined during the last segment featuring latin america: the struggle among postcolonial. Arab leaders to chart a path to development, the turbulence sowed by the cold war, and the middle east"s elusive search for internal stability. Comparative history: an approach where two parallel studies are examined in tandem to highlight differences and commonalities. In our investigation of world history, the regional focus attempts to ascertain why certain global forces and conditions: the cold war, development, decolonization, etc. , played out differently in latin. How did khomeini"s islamic revolution inaugurate a new era for. Middle easter history revolving around a more politicized version of. Nasser was the first arab politician of modern era.
