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Arts and Humanities E103/S103 - Fall 2009

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Oil, Islam, and Geopolitics

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM TR See the Schedule of Classes for discussion section times. The sudden collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 focused new attention on the resource-rich and multi-ethnic states of Central Asia. The September 11 attacks made clear that political Islam and state collapse were regional problems with global implications. This course will introduce students to the history and modern politics of "greater Central Asia," focusing on the Turco-Iranian countries stretching from Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan but including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwest China's Turkic and Islamic Xinjiang region as well. The course opens with the Russian conquest and the Anglo-Russian "Great Game," then focuses on individual countries with guest lectures by regional experts. The course will examine trans-border or regional issues (post-socialist economic transition, disputes over energy, water, etc.), and close with global currents such as Islamism and the post-Cold War rivalries among Russia, China, and the United States.