Faculty of Arts


Week 11 w/c 11 October

Legacies of War

Lecture:

Thursday 13 October: USA & West Asia

Lecturers:

Greg Bankoff

Seminar Topic:

Thursday 13 October & Wednesday 19:

America’s involvement in the Middle East was initially a Cold War affair?

It’s all about oil in the Middle East?

Required Readings:

Saikal, Amin (2003) ‘The Great Issues’. Islam and the West Conflict or Cooperation? Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp.69-110. ISBN 1403903581

Gary Donaldson (1996) ‘The Liberation of Kuwait Has Begun’.  America At War in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. Praeger, Westport, and London, pp.153-167. ISBN 0275955559.

Mahajan, Rahul (2003) ‘Oil as a Component of Empire.’ Full Spectrum Dominance U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond. Seven Stories Press, New York, pp.163-180. ISBN 1583225781

Recommended Readings:

Bell, Roger et al, Negotiating the Pacific century: the 'new' Asia, the United States and Australia, Allen and Unwin, 1996

Buckley, Roger, The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002

Held, David and Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias, American power in the 21st century, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2004

Hunter, Shireen, The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful co-existence? Praeger, Westport, 1998

Ferguson, Nial (2004) The Civilization of Clashes. Colossus; the Price of America’s Empire. Penguin, New York, pp. 105-131

Johnson, Chalmers A., Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire, Metropolitan Books, New York, 2000

Reus-Smit, Christian, American power and world order, Polity Press, cambridge, 2004

Ross, Kristin and Ross, Andrew, Anti-Americanism, New York University Press, New York, 2004

Sardar, Ziauddin and Davies, Merryl, Why do people hate America? Icon, Cambridge, 2002

Sanders, Sol, Through Asian Eyes: US policy in the Asian century, University of America Press, Lanham, 2001

Scarfe Beckett, Katharine, Anglo-Saxon perceptions of the Islamic World, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003

Vogel, Ezra and Yost, Casimir, America's role in Asia: American Views, Asia Foundation, San Francisco, 2001


Articles

Weekly Petroleum Argus, May 23, 2005 v35 i20 p1 (available via expanded academic)

Bromley, Simon, Oil and the Middle East: The End of US Hegemony?, Middle East Report, No. 208, US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Critical Assessments. (Autumn, 1998), pp. 19-22.

Paul Aarts; Michael Renner, Oil and the Gulf War, Middle East Report, No. 171, The Day After. (Jul. - Aug., 1991), pp. 25-29+47.

 

Links:

http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper695.html
The
Changing Dynamics of West Asia

http://info.greenwood.com/books/0275962/0275962881.html
Future
of Islam and the West

http://www.angelfire.com/dc/mbooks/mythofconfrontation.html
Interview
with Professor Fred Halliday on Islam’s relationship with the West

http://www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
History
of Islam

http://salatino.stanford.edu/Image_of_islam_in_the_west.htm
The
Western image of Islam

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/islam/blis_extrem_clash.htm
Origins
of Islamic extremism

http://terrorism.about.com/od/historyofterrorism/a/concisehistory.htm
A
concise history of terrorism

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wwcp.title&book_id=64871
Origins
of terrorism

http://www.theoilfactor.com/
The
politics of oil


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