DISSERTATION PROPOSAL
Introduction
The political economy of the middle east region is very complex and manifested by the conflicts over resources specifically oil. The major events that shape the politics and economy of the region are Iran-Iraq war, invasion of Kuwait, Invasion of the USA in Afghanistan, Invasion of Iraq and the most important i.e. Arab Spring. These disturbances are further accentuated by the emergence of Taliban and ISIL. These Islamist groups aim at transforming the minds of the people which became the main reason for the conflicts in the middle-east region. The topic for the research is to identify the impact of the political economy in Israeli administration towards the middle-east (Bayat, 2013). This will be linked with the conditions prevailing in the Jordon from the year 1999-2017.
On February 1999, Jordan’s King Abdullah II gained power after the death of King Hussein. This was the major turning point for the country and the whole middle-east region which shaped the political economy of Jordan. The king’s model of Jordan is very radical and contemporary in nature. The aim was to fabricate a society which respects pluralism and is instilled with modernity and solidarity. Moreover, his intellect played a major rule in solving a lot of region issues like Palestinian Israeli conflict, terrorism and Arab Spring (Issawi, 2013). The research will tend to investigate the impact of Jordon on Israeli administration and political economy towards the middle-east.
RESEARCH AIM AND OBJECTIVES
The research aims to monitor and measure the impact of political-economic conditions of Israel on the political, economic, social and cultural conditions of other countries of the Middle-east.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
The research aim will be fulfilled by addressing the following objectives:
- To investigate the impact of Israel-Palestinian issue on the political-economic conditions of Israel.
- To enquire the role of Jordan’s King on the overall Middle-east administration specifically Israel.
- To scrutinize events affecting the Israeli administration mentioned in the Jordan’s case study from 1999 to 2017.
Literature Review
The key themes that will be captured in the literature review will consist of the impact of the USA in shaping the political economy of the middle-east region. In addition to this, the literature review will also aim to collect the traces that still proves the impact of American diplomacy over the region. Further, it will aim to explore the Israel-Palestinian peace process along with its impact on the 20-member states of the Arab league. Moreover, Arab's spring has a considerable stake in the functioning of the political economy of the entire middle-east region. This is enough to satiate the research topic and therefore the literature review will be extended further to explain the impact of terrorism and the invisible hand of religion to determine the functioning of all the economies of the region. This will be explained with the help of various pieces of literature i.e. Owen (2013), Fawcett (2016), Jackson (2018), Dalacoura (2012), etc. The keywords that will be considered so as to satisfy the study will be Arab Spring, terrorism in middle-east, Israel-Palestinian Issue, Jordan’s political economy and Israeli Impact on the political economy of the middle-east. In this manner, the literature review will aim at critically analysing these pieces of literature so as to get a deeper knowledge pertaining to the research topic which will ultimately help in the fulfilling the research objective and the aim.