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Empire, Nation-State, Caliphate: The Modern Middle East
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY
The transition from empire to nation-state was among the most consequential developments to shape the Middle East over the last hundred years. Beginning with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire at the close of WWI, the post-war international order invalidated heterogeneous forms of political organization in favor of the nation-state. It was a shift that rendered customary patterns of political and social life in the Middle East newly untenable,...
Separation Anxiety: Religion and the Modern State
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 96 Berry St, Brooklyn, NY
The separation of church and state is often regarded as the hallmark of enlightened democracy, a guarantor of a secular order that protects freedom of conscience by rendering the state indifferent to questions of religious persuasion. While it was long assumed that modernization and secularization went hand in hand, the so-called “return of religion” in the late twentieth century has called this thesis into question. Rather than a neutral political...
Philosophy of History
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Does history have a direction, a purpose, or an end goal? Can we deduce general historical patterns from studying the past? Is it naïve to hope and work for a better future? From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century, liberal, Marxist, positivist, and post-structuralist thinkers have offered radically different responses to these fundamental questions related to the philosophy of history. This course will survey these attempts to grapple...
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The Long Shadow of the Great War
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
In May 1916, as the senseless slaughter of Verdun entered its fourth month and the Allied powers prepared for the Battle of the Somme, François Georges-Picot and Sir Mark Sykes concluded a secret agreement to divide the Ottoman Empire into British and French territories. That the spoils of war would be imperial acquisitions was self-evident to the two countries, which had long competed for influence in the Eastern Mediterranean. What was less obvious...
On Religious Violence
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
This course will offer students a framework for confronting such questions. We will begin by examining the construction of “religious violence” as a unique concept against the background of classic liberal political thought. Featuring readings from prominent theorists like John Locke and John Stuart Mill alongside contemporary reflections by thinkers such as Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, Jürgen Habarmas, and William Cavanaugh, we will ask questions...
Edward Said: Culture and Empire
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Few contemporary intellectuals have generated enough interest in their work to achieve simultaneous fame and infamy, yet this distinction undoubtedly applies to Edward Said (1935-2003). In the aftermath of his monumental Orientalism (1978) and his outspoken advocacy on behalf of the Palestinian people, Said became a lightning rod within both academic and policy debates about multiculturalism, Euro-American exceptionalism, and the nature of American...
Partitions: the Politics of Separation
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
From the population exchange that forged modern Greece and Turkey to the post-WWII division of South Asia and Palestine to the more recent dissolution of Yugoslavia, the 20th century was a time of partition and the compulsory movement of peoples. Often narrated as the inevitable result of different national and ethnic groups inhabiting the same territory–the outcome of “age old” prejudices and mutual hatred–partitions are in fact a thoroughly...
Modern Palestine: a Historical Introduction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Perpetually in the news and commanding a tremendous amount of scholarly attention, Palestine remains a flashpoint in a number of contemporary debates: about war, colonization, and violence, religious and ethnic identity, nationalism and self-determination, modes of resistance, the role of international institutions, diasporic politics, academic freedom, and American foreign policy, among others. This course offers students an opportunity step back...
The Politics of Oil: State, Economy, and Geopolitics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
From early concessions to American and British speculators to the creation of Aramco in 1933, mid-century attempts to nationalize oil industries, the 1973 oil shock, and the Iraq wars, oil has structured the history of the modern Middle East in fundamental ways. In this course, we will examine the pivotal role of oil resources, companies, and energy demands in shaping state and society in the region. We will ask: What types of political and social...
The Making of the Modern Middle East
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
The Making of the Modern Middle East: From Postcolonialism to the Arab Spring The last decade has seen revolutionary movements take place throughout the Middle East and North Africa. From Tunisia and Egypt to Sudan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain, people have banded together (with mixed results) in attempts to overturn long-standing dictators and authoritarian regimes. Yet many of the regimes in question were themselves the heirs to an earlier...
The Peace Process: Conflict, Diplomacy, and Geopolitics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
From the 1979 Camp David Accords to the Oslo “peace process” and the freshly inked Abraham Accords, the political history of the Middle East over the past 40 years has been shaped by multiple attempts to make peace between Israel, the Palestinians, and the surrounding Arab states. With negotiations taking place most often under American auspices—and sweetened by the prospect of security agreements and military equipment sales—”peacemaking”...
Literature and Colonialism: Joseph Conrad & Tayeb Salih
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Famously excoriated by Chinua Achebe as an “offensive and deplorable” dehumanization of the lives of Africans, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness may be one of the most intensively scrutinized and adapted works of modern European literature. Achebe’s critique has since been contested, not least as a deliberate misreading of Conrad’s own perhaps ambivalent understanding of the industrialized barbarism of Belgian colonialism in the Congo....
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