SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS
Voyage: Summer 2013 Discipline: Political Science PLCP 3500-501: Politics and Change in the Euro-Mediterranean Region: The Arab Spring, Euro Zone Crisis and Beyond Proposed as Upper or Lower Division: Lower Faculty Name: Scott W. Hibbard
Pre-requisites: None. Introduction to Comparative Politics or International Relations recommended.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will examine a series of topics that have defined the politics of the Euro-Mediterranean region in recent years. The course will begin with the political upheavals in North Africa associated with the 2011 Arab Uprisings. The focus of the class with then turn towards the unrest in Southern Europe associated with the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent sovereign debt crises in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In both cases, we will give particular attention to the economic sources of political discontent, and the debates over how best to respond to such trends. The latter part of the course will review a variety of related issues including: Euro- Mediterranean relations, migration/immigration and the challenge of Muslim minorities in Europe. The larger theme that ties the course – and these various issues – together is globalization, and the social and political impact of rapid economic transformation.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The primary objective of this course is for students to develop a working knowledge of the recent political and economic crises of North Africa and Southern Europe. A related objective is to have the students examine the issues, and the debates over how to respond, from diverse perspectives.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
AUTHOR: James Gelvin, TITLE: The Arab Spring: What Everyone Needs to Know PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press ISBN #: 978-0199891771 DATE/EDITION: March 2012
AUTHOR: William Cline and Guntram Wolff (editors) TITLE: Resolving the European Debt Crisis PUBLISHER: Petersen Institute For International Economics ISBN #: 978-0881326420 DATE/EDITION: March 2012
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Please Note: Asterisked readings (*) are available in the course folder on the ship intranet site. “Additional Material” is not required.
TOPICAL OUTLINE OF COURSE
C1- June 19: Introduction
C2- June 20: Arab Spring, Part 1 – Revolution and Discontent -James Gelvin, The Arab Spring, Chapter 1
Additional Material: -Max Rodenback, “Volcano of Rage,” New York Review of Books, February 24, 2011.* 2011.* -Noueihed and Warren, The Battle for the Arab Spring (on reserve in the library)
C3- June 21: Arab Spring, Part 2 – Tunisia and Egypt -James Gelvin, The Arab Spring, Chapter 2
C4- June 22: Arab Spring, Part 3 – Morocco -Nicholas Pelham, “How Morocco Dodged the Arab Spring,” New York Review of Books, July 5, 2012.* -James Gelvin, The Arab Spring, Chapter 5 (First half of chapter only)
Additional Material: -Sarah Yerkes, “Morocco: The Model for Reform?” in Kenneth Pollack, et. al., The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East (Brookings Press, 2011).*
June 23-June 26: Casablanca
C5- June 27: The Arab Spring, Part 4 - Libya -James Gelvin, The Arab Spring, Chapter 3 (Focus on Libya material)
C6- June 28: Globalization, Part 1: What is it? -Gary Wells, The Issue of Globalization: An Overview (CRS Report, May 1, 2001), p. 1 - 15.* -Thomas Friedman, “A Manifesto for the Fast World,” The New York Times Sunday Magazine, March 28, 1999.*
C7- June 29: Globalization, Part 2: Debating the Merits -Gary Wells, The Issue of Globalization: An Overview (CRS Report, May 1, 2001), p. 16 - 25.*
No Class June 30
C8- July 1: Globalization, Part 3: The 2008 Financial Collapse -Frederick Mishkin, “Over the Cliff: From the Subprime to the Global Financial Crisis,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2011.* 2
Additional Material: PBS Frontline Documentaries: Inside the Meltdown or Money, Power and Wall Street Film: Margin Call
C9- July 2: Globalization, Part 4: How to Respond – Keynes vs. Hayek (vs. Marx) -Nancy Koehn, “The Tale of the Dueling Economists,” The New York Times, October 22, 2011.* -Adam Davidson, “God Save the British Economy,” The New York Times, December 19, 2012.*
Additional Material: -BBC Documentary: Masters of Money: Keynes, Hayek and Marx (available on-line and in library) - Keynes vs. Hayek: an Economic Debate – http://www.reuters.com/subjects/keynes-hayek - Keynes vs. Hayek: The Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
July 3 – 5, Antalya, Turkey
C10- July 6: Arab Spring, Part 5: Geo-Politics of the Arab Spring -Savas Michael-Matsas, “The Arab Spring: The Revolution at the Doors of Europe,” Critique -Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, “This is Not a Revolution,” The New York Review of Books, November 8, 2012.
C11- July 7: Arab Spring, Part 6: Syria -James Gelvin, The Arab Spring, Chapter 4 (focus on Syria sections of chapter) -Max Rodenback, “The Agony of Syria,” The New York Review of Books, Sept 27, 2012.*
July 8- 11: Istanbul
C12- July 12: Eurozone Crisis, part 1: General -George Soros, “The Crisis and the Euro,” The New York Review of Books, August 19, 2010.* -Christopher Alessi, “The Eurozone in Crisis,” Council on Foreign Relations (April 2013).*
Additional Material: -The Great Euro Crash http://www.financedocumentaries.com/2012/07/great-euro-crash- 2012.html -BBC Documentary: Masters of Money: Keynes, Hayek and Marx -Philip Lane, “The European Sovereign Debt Crisis,” in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2012.*
C13- July 13: Eurozone Crisis, Part 2: Greece -Rebecca Nelson, et. al., Greece’s Debt Crisis: Overview, Policy Responses and Implications (April 2010), pp. 1-5.* -Cline and Wolf, Resolving the European Debt Crisis, Chapter 2
Additional Material: -Documentary: Europe at the Brink: A WSJ Documentary and Cutting Back: Anatomy of Greece’s Debt Crisis* 3 -Documentary: Debtocracy - http://www.financedocumentaries.com/2011/10/debtocracy.html
July 14 -17: Piraeus
C14- July 18: Eurozone Crisis, Part 3: Debating the Response -Rebecca Nelson, et. al., Greece’s Debt Crisis: Overview, Policy Responses and Implications, pp. 6 - 14.* --Annie Lowrey, “IMF Concedes Major Missteps in Bailout of Greece,” New York Times, June 5, 2013.* Cline and Wolf, Resolving the European Debt Crisis, Chapter 13
Additional Material: -BBC Masters of Money: Keynes, Hayek and Marx. -“The Crisis and How to Deal with It,” The New York Review of Books, June 11, 2009.* -The Great Euro Crisis - http://www.financedocumentaries.com/2012/08/the-great-euro-crisis- 2012.html
C15- July 19: Eurozone Debt Crisis, Part 4: Ireland. -Cline and Wolf, Resolving the European Debt Crisis, Chapter 3
C16- July 20: Eurozone Debt Crisis, Part 5: Italy. -Cline and Wolf, Resolving the European Debt Crisis, Chapter 5
July 21-23: Livorno July 24 26: Civitavecchia
C17- July 27: EU-Mediterranean Relations. Part 1: Overview -Richard Whitman and Ana Juncos, “The Arab Spring, The Eurozone Crisis and the Neighborhood: A Region in Flux,” Journal of Common Market Studies 2012
Additional Material: -Vera Knoops, Euro-Mediterranean Relations and the Arab Spring, -European Commission’s European Neighborhood Policy: http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/index_en.htm#
C18- July 28: EU-Mediterranean Relations. Part 2: Migration -Tony Barber, “Fortress Europe: Immigration,” Financial Times, June 14, 2011 -Frontex Risk Assessment Network (FRAN) Quarterly Report on Migration Patterns in the Mediterranean (Executive Summary and .Sections 4.1 and 4.2).* -I-Map - http://www.imap-migration.org
Additional Material: -Migrants at Sea Blog: http://migrantsatsea.wordpress.com/tag/malta/ -Human Rights Watch Report, Turned Away: Summary Returns of Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adult Asylum Seekers from Italy to Greece (January 2013).*
4 July 29 – 31: Malta
C19- August 1: Muslims as Minorities in Europe -Steffen Angenendt, Paul Barrett, et. al, Muslim Integration: Challenging Conventional Wisdom in Europe and the US, (CSIS Publication, September 2007), pp. 5 – 14, and 45 – 51.* -Tariq Ramadan, “Swiss Minaret Ban: Can Europe Learn to Trust its Muslim Citizens,” Christian Science Monitor, December 1, 2009.*
Additional Material: -Justin Vaisse, Muslims in Europe: A Short Introduction (Brookings Institution)* -Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia, EUMC 2006* -Moha Ennaji, “Moroccan Migrants in Europe and Islamophobia,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Duke University Press), 2010.
C20- August 2: France and Globalization -Stephanie Giry, “France and its Muslims,” Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2006.* -Cline and Wolf, Resolving the European Debt Crisis, Chapter 7
August 3 - 5: Marseilles August 6 - 8: Barcelona
C21- August 9: Spain’s Challenges -Nick Paumgarten, “The Hangover: Letter from Madrid,” The New Yorker, February 25, 2013.* -Cline and Wolf, Resolving the European Debt Crisis, Chapter 6
Additional Material: -Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (Mariner Books, 2006).
C22- August 10: Terrorism in Spain/Eurozone Crisis in Portugal -“Where Boys Grow up to be Jihadis,” New York Times Magazine, November 25, 2007.* http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/30/world/europe/eurocrisis-photos.html -Cline and Wolf, Resolving the European Debt Crisis, Chapter 4 -http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/portugal/index.html
August 11 – 13, Cadiz August 14 – 16, Lisbon
C23- August 17: Review and Summation
August 18: Study Day
C24-August 19: Final Exams
August 20-21: Packing and Reflection
August 22: Southampton 5
FIELD WORK
FIELD LAB: -Morocco: Politics, Democracy and Reform – Rabat, Center for Cross Cultural Learning. -Turkish-Syrian Relations and the Syrian uprising – Istanbul, Koc University.
FIELD ASSIGNMENTS -Paper on the any aspect of the presentations that will be a part of the field labs. This could entail a focus on constitutional reform in Morocco, the economic sources of the Arab uprisings, the situation in Syria, identity issues in Turkey, or other related topics. The paper should draw from the field labs, and reflect upon your impressions of the presentations that are featured in the labs.
METHODS OF EVALUATION / GRADING RUBRIC
Each student is expected to read the assigned material before class and to be prepared to discuss its contents each week. Class attendance and participation is mandatory, and will comprise 10 percent of your grade. There are also five short writing assignments (1 to 2 pages, double spaced), analyzing a given class reading due prior to class (worth 20 percent of your grade), and one longer paper (5 – 6 pages double spaced) drawing from your field labs (20 percent of grade). There will also be a final exam (worth 50 percent). All papers must be submitted electronically via the course intranet system.
The required texts listed above will be available in the college bookstore, or on reserve in the ship library. Asterisked readings (*) will be available on the ship intranet system. “Additional Material” is NOT required reading.
RESERVE LIBRARY LIST AUTHOR: James Gelvin, TITLE: The Arab Spring: What Everyone Needs to Know PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press ISBN #: 978-0199891771 DATE/EDITION: March 2012
AUTHOR: William Cline and Guntram Wolff (editors) TITLE: Resolving the European Debt Crisis PUBLISHER: Petersen Institute For International Economics ISBN #: 978-0881326420 DATE/EDITION: March 2012
AUTHOR: Lin Moueihed and Alex Warren TITLE: The Battle for the Arab Spring: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era 6 PUBLISHER: Yale University Press ISBN: 978-0-300-18086-2 DATE/EDITION: 2012
AUTHOR: Laila Lalami TITLE: Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits PUBLISHER: Mariner Books ISBN: 978-0156030878 DATE/EDITION: 2006
ELECTRONIC COURSE MATERIALS Please see bibliographic information for articles and book chapters listed above. Electronic versions of all articles referenced in the syllabus will be provided.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES None.
HONOR CODE Semester at Sea students enroll in an academic program administered by the University of Virginia, and thus bind themselves to the University’s honor code. The code prohibits all acts of lying, cheating, and stealing. Please consult the Voyager’s Handbook for further explanation of what constitutes an honor offense.
Each written assignment for this course must be pledged by the student as follows: “On my honor as a student, I pledge that I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment.” The pledge must be signed, or, in the case of an electronic file, signed “[signed].”
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