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The ‘New Middle East’ wars, 2/2 Tenth presentation in the lecture series: ‘Self Determination in the Post Colonial World’, by Dr Tim Anderson, 2021.
We will keep posting these online videos (over the next 2 or 3 months) until there is a full set for the complete unit of study, which can be freely read, without assessment. It is up to an associated university to take it up as a unit of study, adding assessed tasks and allowing it to count for a credit towards degree studies.
Set readings:
Week Ten
Anderson, Tim (2019) Axis of Resistance: towards an independent Middle East, Clarity Press, Atlanta, pp.11-18
Cook, Steven A. (2020) ‘Why the Middle East still matters to America’, Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec, online:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-13/no-exit
Whitney, Mike (2016) ‘The Broken Chessboard: Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire’, Counter Punch, 25 August, online:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/25/the-broken-chessboard-brzezinski-gives-up-on-empire/
The Readings and course materials are being posted at this site:
SDPCW#1 – Overview: Self Determination in the Post Colonial World
Tim Anderson
Tim Anderson was a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney for 20 years. Now he is Director of the Center for Counter Hegemonic Studies. He researches and writes on development, rights and self-determination in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has published many dozens of chapters and articles in a range of academic books and journals. His latest books are Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea (Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2015), The Dirty War on Syria (Global Research, Montreal, 2016) and AXIS OF RESISTANCE- Towards an Independent Middle East (Clarity Press, 2019).
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