| Credits | 1 |
| Restrictions | No 2026 2025 2024 Instr perm req during Drop/Add |
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| Area of Inquiry | Social Relations,Inst.& Agents |
| Liberal Arts Practices | Confront Collective Challenges |
Faculty Profile for Professor Rutherford
An introduction to Middle Eastern politics, including historical foundations of the modern Middle East, competing strategies of state building, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Gulf War, the rise of political Islam, and American policy toward the region. Students who successfully complete this seminar earn credit for POSC/MIST 215 and can satisfy the social relations, institutions, and agents area of inquiry requirement or the confronting collective challenges liberal arts practice requirement.
Professor Bruce Rutherford has travelled widely in the Middle East and lived for several years in Egypt. His current research focuses in two areas: the new types of autocratic regimes that emerged in the region in the wake of the Arab spring; and the growing role of China in the Middle East.