“The Arab-Israeli Conflict”
Kenneth W. Stein, Brown University, Spring 2006
This is an advanced survey of the Arab-Israeli conflict’s history, politics and diplomacy. Divided at 1948-49, the first half of the course deals with the conflict’s social, political, ideological and diplomatic origins; the second half with the period since, focusing on Israeli and Palestinian national emergence, Arab-Israeli wars, the subsequent diplomacy from each, and the impact of American, European and Cold War engagement upon the conflict’s unfolding. Integral to the course are analyses of documents associated with the conflict’s 100-year-plus history. Both the midterm and final examination questions are presented on the syllabus. They are relatively simple questions that require you to use all your accumulated knowledge of the conflict and express it in a coherent and written fashion in a limited period of time. (Note: This course was taught before the israeled.org website was launched with key source documents related to the conflict and noted on the syllabus. Some of those sources were used in hard copy; they are hyperlinked here.)
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