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Monday, January 15, 2018

Global and Regional Development (WEEK -6 Wednesday, January 17): Readings, Newspaper articles, Presentation and Documentaries


Dear all,

For the Week 6TH, you should read the following chapters before you come to the class:

·      Does Israel Need Think Tanks? by Hannah Elka Meyers. http://www.meforum.org/2061/does-israel-need-think-tanks
·      The Israel Lobby John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/john-mearsheimer/the-israel-lobby
·      The International Labor Organization (Ian Hurd) 
·      The Clinton Administration (Kubilay Yado Arin)
·      The Bush Administration (Kubilay Yado Arin)
·      Introduction - NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects - Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor
·      Saving Biodiversity, for Whom and for What? Conservation NGOs, Complicity, Colonialism and Conquest in an Era of Capitalist Globalization - Aziz Choudry (Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor)

DOCUMENTARY:
The Israel Lobby - (2007)
Gideon Levy Speach at the Israel Lobby Convention, Washington D.C., April 10 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFQWU0DtbGA

This week, we will have a presentation on Wednesday. YOU SHOULD PREPARE POWER POINTS and EMAIL IT TO ME A DAY BEFORE THE CLASS.

YI HAN
·      The United Nations II: international peace and security (Ian Hurd)
·      Advocacy Tanks Acting like Policy Entrepreneurs (Kubilay Yado Arin)
·      The Role of Neoconservative Think Tanks in US Foreign Policy (Kubilay Yado Arin)
NURETTIN AKCAY
·      Does Israel Need Think Tanks? by Hannah Elka Meyers.
·      The Israel Lobby John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
ESRA SARIOGLU
·      The Clinton Administration (Kubilay Yado Arin)
·      The Bush Administration (Kubilay Yado Arin)

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE PRESENTATION: Please bring RECENT newspaper articles. Articles SHOULD BE related with ISRAELI or Other Ethnic LOBBY in the US. Other subjects will not be accepted. PLEASE VERY BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE YOUR ARTICLE IN THE CLASS!  

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best to all,

Tugrul

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