Prospective students are recommended to read from the following list:

 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THEORIES

Scott Burchil (ed.), Theories of nternational Relations, Palgrave MacMillian, 2005   

R. Art and R. Jervis, International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Cotemporary Issues, Pearon Longman, 2005

Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, Steve Smith (eds.), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, Oxford, 2007

 

MIDDLE EAST-  GENERAL READINGS  

Ira Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies,  2002

Montgomery Watt, The Formative Period of Islamic Thought, Oneworld, 1998

Albert Hourani,A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition, Faber and Faber, 2013  

Marshall Hodgson, The Venture of Islam, Chicago, 1977

Charles Lindholm, The Islamic Middle East: Tradition and Change, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Philip Hitti, History of the Arabs, Palgrave MacMillan, 2002

William L. Cleveland, A History of Modern Middle East, Westview, 2009   

Edward Said, Orientalism, Penguin, 2003

Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: 2000 Years Of History From The Birth Of Christia: 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day, Phoenix, 2001

Bernard Lewis, Arabs in History, Oxford, 2002

M.E. Yapp, The Near East since the First World War, 1996

 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND MIDDLE EAST

Mathew S. Anderson, The Eastern Question, 1774-1923, Palgrave MacMillan

Fred Halliday, The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology, Cambridge University Press, 2005

Louise Fawcett (ed.),International Relations of the Middle East, Oxford, 2009

Hinnebusch and Ehteshami (eds.), Foreign Policies of Middle East States, Rienner, 2002

Gregory Gause, The International Relations of the Persian Gulf, Cambridge, 2010

Avi Shlaim, War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History, Penguin, 1995

Shibley Telhami, The Stakes: America In The Middle East, Westview, 2004

Carl L. Brown (ed.),  International Politics and the Middle East: Old Rules, Dangerous Game, 1984

Carl L. Brown (ed.), Diplomacy in the Middle East: The International Relations of Regional and Outside Powers, 2004

Robert Fisk, Great War of Civilization: The Conquest of Middle East, Harper Perennial, 2006

Fawaz Gerges,  The Superpowers and the Middle East: Regional and International Politics, 1955-1967

 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND ISLAM

Adeed Dawisha (ed.), Islam in Foreign Policy, 1983

John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, OUP USA, 1999

John L. Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path, OUP USA, 2012

Fawaz Gerges, America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests?, 1999

Fred Halliday, Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East, 2003  

Sami Zubaida, Islam, the People and the State: Essays on Political Ideas and Movements  in the Middle East

 

ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Avi Shlaim,  The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Penguin, 2001

Eugene L. Rogan, Avi Shlaim, The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, Cambridge, 2007

Ilan Pappe,  (ed.),  The Israel/Palestine Question, 2007

Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, 2006

Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999, 2001

Ritchie Ovendale, The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Wars, 2004

Mark Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1994