POLC97H3 Lecture Notes - Algerian War, European Colonialism, Authoritarianism
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Focus on the middle east, a lot of ideas around, from the media, from personal experience. Examine some of the ideas based on political science. Focus on a number of trends, factors that society mobilizes. Help reflect critically on concepts we learn. Focus on protest politics, a lot of people think that the only thing that mobilizes people in the middle east is religion, i. e. islam. A european name given to the region, by the british india office, who divided the region from the far east of asia to turkey. Focus on countries between morocco to iran, and including sudan. These people are different in many different ways, challenging to study society or politics, focus on certain trends, doesn"t apply to all. Language (arab is most common, other than regional and ethnic languages), culture, religion, history of european colonization and occupation. Two main powers were france and britain, others included italy and spain.
