Florida International University Egypt and Syria Upbringing Analysis Essay Answer ONLY ONE of the following essay topics. (3 pages or 750 words MAXIMUM, do

Florida International University Egypt and Syria Upbringing Analysis Essay Answer ONLY ONE of the following essay topics. (3 pages or 750 words MAXIMUM, double spaced, font 12, 1 inch margins).

Use your classnotes and required reading (both your textbook and online assigned articles) to reference your points in endnote format (the endnotes will not be included in your word count). If you need to you may use additional sources, as long as it is an academic (peer-reviewed) source (i.e. book chapter from an academic press, or peer reviewed journal article).

1. Compare and contrast the Arab Uprisings (and their aftermath) in two of the states that we have covered since the midterm (Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia). Discuss similarities or differences in origins, grievances, government responses, successes or failures.

(You may want to include: demographics, topography, regionalism, economic factors, previous government structure and policies, opposition typology, as well as the impact of regional and international geopolitics involvement by outside actors).

You must reference your required reading and class notes to answer this question.

2. Explain Sectarianization, and how it has played out in one or more of the following countries (Lebanon, Iraq, or Bahrain, Syria, Yemen). How has it been impacted by international politics, i.e. what role have outside actors/states, regional or global, past and/or present played in affecting the domestic politics of these states?

You must reference your required reading and class notes to answer this question.

3. Explain Israel’s shift to the right, the prominence of what Rafaella Del Sarto refers to as Neo-Revisionism.