History of the Modern Middle East / Module 24
21st-Century Conflicts and Challenges (I)
Twenty-first-century conflicts are studied through wars, interventions, and regional challenges. The lesson asks how local conflicts and outside powers reshape one another.
Learning objectives
- Examine the effects of wars and interventions on the contemporary Middle East.
- Identify regional challenges shaped by both local conflict and outside intervention.
Transcript excerpt
Excerpt from the lesson transcript
I want to talk about the impact of these wars and these interventions and of regional wars and regional conflicts, which may or may not have anything to do with external intervention. And I want to do this as part of one of the concluding things I want to do in this course, which is to talk about the challenges that the Middle East faces in coming decades.