Dr Kirsten Schulze M14 Sardinia House

This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History and BSc in International Relations and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War; Israeli foreign and defence policy; the 1956 Suez-Sinai Campaign; the 1967 Six-Day War; regime change in Egypt and Syria in 1970; 1970/71 Black September; the 1973 Yom Kippur War; the 1975 Lebanese civil war; the ascendance of the Likud; the Camp David Accords 1979; the invasion of the Lebanon 1982; Palestinian resistance; the 1987 Intifada; the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference; the 1993 Oslo Accords; the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli Peace Treaty; the 2000 al-Aqsa intifada; and peace efforts since 2000.

20 hours of seminars in the MT. 20 hours of seminars in the LT.

Week 6 of both Michaelmas and Lent terms will be a Reading Week.

Students are required to write two essays, including a one-hour timed essay.

Exam (50%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Essay (20%) and presentation (10%) in the LT.
Project (20%) in the ST.

The project will be a group project due in Week 1 of the ST.