POL SCI 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gulf Cooperation Council, Arab Spring, Arab Nationalism
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Lesson 1: shia crescebt, syria, iran, bahrian parts of iraq, arabian peninsula, gulf cooperation council: regional governmental organization that includes all countries on arab peninsula, muslim is a religion and arabs are an ethnicity, arabs speak arabic, arab league, countries with over 60% of, what are characteristics of me countries, all countries except israel and tunisia are not considered to have political freedom. Exodus of foreign officials and businessman: drive for arab unity (arab nationalism and socialism, oil wealth, nasser and wafd party, independence in 1922, three legs at table. Open door economic policy: 1975 gradual abandonment of the one party system, 1977 speech at the knesset, 1979 camp david agreement, 1981 assassination of sadat, baathism, pan arab movement. Unity freedom and socialism: secular movement, obstacles to unity, individual state"s nationalism, israeli palestinian conflict, ethnic/religious minorities and monarchies opposed a united arab state.
