Regional Conflicts and Security in the Middle East


Sinkaya B.

  • Dersin Düzeyi: Yüksek Lisans
  • Tasarlanan Ders Kodu: INRE 520
  • Öğretim Türü: Örgün Öğretim (Normal Öğretim)
  • Dersin Kapsamı: Teorik
  • Akademik Yıl: 2022 - 2023
  • Ders İçeriği:


    This course is designed to introduce graduate students into long-term conflicts and security issues in the Middle East.  First, it will elaborate on concepts of conflict and security, and review major reasons of conflicts. Then, it will address both longstanding security issues and contemporary challenges and conflicts that emerged in the region through a review of historical background, current situation, claims of the parties, and the relevant literature. At the end of the course, students will be familiar with major long-standing security issues as well as recent conflicts that emerged in the Middle East; will be able to review reasons of the conflicts through different perspectives; will be aware of major debates in the literature with regard to regional conflicts and security; and will be able to review new challenges and conflicts.