POLS 3260 Lecture Notes - Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, Bashar Al-Assad
26 Nov 2013
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22 countries in the middle east * Afghanistan technically not middle east, b/c there is so much relation b/c were talking about afghanistan we have to bring in pakistan. Pakistan- b/c of the involvement with afghanistan ; u have geography evolving. Sudan not part of the m/e - Sim- all examples colonies of colonial powers, some were direct colonies such as tunisia. Second similarity; **religion ** ; sizable population of christians, jew, as well as the most common religionislam. Differences ; characteristics to take into consideration economy, political structure, imperialism. So many factors that you can try to categorize m/e countries. Using two factors to simplify size & wealth size (population) wealth (gdp, gdp per capita,) Using the matrix (chart) justify the countries in each category. Countries to look at (egypt, turkey and iran largest in population - iraq, Afghanistan, lebanon, palestine, **list of middle eastern countries** No neither would give up their major demands, because they are contradictory.
