POLC83H3 Lecture Notes - George W. Bush, Northern Kurdish, Arab Spring
27 Sep 2013
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Renan levine, department of political science renan. levine@utoronto. ca (416) 208-2651. This course examines the foreign policy of the united states by analyzing its context and application to the middle east. In particular, we will examine american efforts to reach a peace agreement between the israel and the palestinians. For [at least] 40 years, the united states has taken the lead on trying to coax state and non-state actors in the middle east to agree to a just and lasting peace with little success. These negotiations are currently going on (again) with american mediation. American strategy towards these negotiations, asking what could (or should) the united states do to bring about peace between israel and the palestinians. Nothing, of course, happens in a vacuum, and world events have seemingly overtaken those negotiations and this class. A coup in egypt overthrew an elected president from the muslim. Meanwhile, civil war rages in syria and recent revelations that the.
