Faculty of Arts
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:
Buckley, Roger, The
Held, David and Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias, American power in the 21st century, Polity Press,
Hunter, Shireen, The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful co-existence? Praeger,
Johnson, Chalmers A., Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire, Metropolitan Books,
Reus-Smit, Christian, American power and world order, Polity Press,
Ross, Kristin and Ross, Andrew, Anti-Americanism,
Sardar, Ziauddin and Davies, Merryl, Why do people hate
Sanders, Sol, Through Asian Eyes:
Scarfe Beckett, Katharine, Anglo-Saxon perceptions of the Islamic World, Cambridge University Press,
Vogel, Ezra and Yost,
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
Paul Aarts; Michael Renner, Oil and the Gulf War,
Links:
http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper695.html
The Changing Dynamics of
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