The course “Medio Oriente e i Paesi del Golfo” aims at analysing the challenges that the countries of the Middle East and the Gulf States face today and in the future. It integrates theoretical and analytical tools of International Relations with the critical sensitivity of area studies. Economic and political scenarios, relations with global actors, factors of development and geopolitical change will be also be explored as well as their relations with international actors.

Through the methodology of active learning, the Intensive Regional Geopolitics course on “Il Medio Oriente e le Potenze Internazionali” aims at investigating the current economic, cultural and social policies and landscape of the Middle East, with a particular focus on dynamics of conflict, instability and cooperation.

Despite substantial spending on education and robust support for reform both internally and by external donors, the quality of education in many, if not most, Arab countries remains low. Which raises the question: why?