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Lisa Yang

Helpful hints and tips to get through your HASS subjects for both students and teachers.

  1. Jun 27

    Terrorism in the Middle East (Year 12 History)

    Terrorism: what it is, why it is used, and its impact and effects on the peace processes in the Middle East. Sources used: BBC 2024, Middle East Conflict, BBC History, , https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/middle_east Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) 2024, Middle East and North Africa Backgrounders, CFR, https://www.cfr.org/middle-east-and-north-africa Wilson Center 2024, Terrorism & Extremism, Wilson Center, .  Washington Institute for Near East Policy 2024, Research and Analysis, WINEP .  Jewish Virtual Library 2024, Terrorism and Israeli Responses, American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise,.  Al Jazeera 2024, Middle East – News, Analysis, and History, Al Jazeera Media Network, .  United Nations 2024, UN Peacebuilding and Middle East Peace Process, United Nations, https://www.un.org/peacebuilding United States Department of State 2024, Country Reports on Terrorism, US State Department, .  Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2024, Official Statements and Documents, Government of Israel, .  Byman, D 2005, Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Selected chapters available online.)  Gerges, FA 2005, The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Open‑access excerpts available.)  Hoffman, B 2006, Inside Terrorism, Columbia University Press, New York. (Selected chapters available online.)  Khalidi, R 1997, ‘The Palestinians and 1967: The Absence of a Strategy’, Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 42–56.  Norton, AR 2007, Hezbollah: A Short History, Princeton University Press, Princeton. (Articles by Norton available through open‑access archives.)   Laqueur, W 2001, A History of Terrorism, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick.  Levitt, M 2006, Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad, Yale University Press, New Haven.  Milton‑Edwards, B & Farrell, S 2010, Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement, Polity Press, Cambridge.  Milton‑Edwards, B 2008, The Israeli‑Palestinian Conflict: A People’s War, Routledge, London.  Morris, B 2001, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2001, Vintage, New York.  Norton, AR 2007, Hezbollah: A Short History, Princeton University Press, Princeton.  Pappé, I 2006, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oneworld, Oxford.  Shlaim, A 2000, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, W.W. Norton, New York.  Hamas 1988, The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), .  Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1995, Statement on the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Government of Israel, .  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) 1968, The Palestinian National Charter, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ United Nations Security Council 1967, Resolution 242, United Nations, .  United Nations Security Council 1973, Resolution 338, United Nations, .  United States Department of State 2003–2010, Country Reports on Terrorism, US State Department, .  Al Jazeera 2013, The Price of Oslo (documentary), Al Jazeera Media Network.  BBC 2008, The Birth of Israel (documentary), BBC.  PBS Frontline 2002, The Suicide Bombers, Public Broadcasting Service.

    58 min

  2. Jun 27

    Significance of the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Blockade (Year 12 History)

    A brief discussion about the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and Berlin Blockade. Sources: Truman, Harry S. Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on Greece and Turkey (The Truman Doctrine). 12 March 1947.  Marshall, George C. Harvard Commencement Address (The Marshall Plan Speech). 5 June 1947.  Stalin, Joseph. Interview with Pravda on the Marshall Plan. 1947.  Allied Control Council Documents on Berlin, 1948–49.  NATO. North Atlantic Treaty. 4 April 1949.  Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. Penguin, 2005.  Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment. Oxford University Press, 2005.  Leffler, Melvyn P. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford University Press, 1992.  Leffler, Melvyn P. “The Cold War: What Do ‘We Now Know’?” American Historical Review, 1999.  Zubok, Vladislav. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. UNC Press, 2007.  Cold War International History Project (CWIHP). Woodrow Wilson Center.  National Archives (UK & US) — digitised Cold War documents.  NATO Archives Online — founding documents and early Cold War materials.  Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State — FRUS (Foreign Relations of the United States) volumes.

    7 min

  3. Jun 27

    The Iran-Iraq War (Year 12 History)

    A deep dive into the Iran-Iraq War and its causes and consequences with some historians' takes on the matter. Hiro, D. (1991). The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. New York: Routledge.    https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/iran-iraq-war      https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-iran-iraq-war-will-shape-the-region-for-decades-to-come/   https://www.merip.org/2007/06/the-war-economy-of-iraq/    https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86T01017R000302500001-0.pdf    https://enablingpeace.org/iraq-iran-war-impact/    Hiro, D. (1991). The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. New York: Routledge.    Karsh, E. (Ed.). (1989).The Iran-Iraq War: Impact and Implications. Macmillan.    Chubin, S., & Tripp, C. (1988).Iran and Iraq at War. Westview Press.    Chubin, S. (1989). The last phase of the Iran‐Iraq war: From stalemate to ceasefire. Third World Quarterly, 11(4), 183-193.

    27 min

  4. Jun 24

    The Six Day War as a turning point in modern Middle Eastern history (Year 12 History)

    A discussion of the Six Day War and its significance when looking at the history of the Middle East and the struggles for peace. Laron, G. (2017, June 5). The Historians’ War Over the Six-Day War. The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/historians-war-six-day-war/    J. Correspondent. (1997, May 30). Six-Day War memories: 30 years later, revisionists ask how war began. JWeekly.com. https://jweekly.com/1997/05/30/six-day-war-memories-30-years-later-revisionists-ask-how-war-began/    Oren, M. B. (1999, Spring). Did Israel Want the Six Day War? Azure - Ideas for the Jewish Nation. http://www.azure.org.il/article.php?id=313

    22 min

  5. Jun 22

    The role of Jimmy Carter in working for and opposing peace (Year 12 History)

    A brief conversation about Jimmy Carter and his efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East Abrahamian, E. A History of Modern Iran. Cambridge University Press, 2008. Gerges, F. The Superpowers and the Middle East. Westview Press, 1994. Khalidi, R. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Beacon Press, 2006. Lewis, B. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. Scribner, 1995. Morris, B. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2001. Vintage, 1999. Pressman, J. The United States and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. Routledge, 2003. Quandt, W. Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics. Brookings Institution, 1986. Shlaim, A. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. Penguin, 2000.

    10 min

  6. Jun 22

    Historiographical look at the First and Second Intifadas (Year 12 History)

    A kind of rambling discussion of the historiography of the First and Second Intifadas and their causes and significance.

    22 min

  7. Jun 21

    The Berlin Wall and its significance in the evolving nature and character of the Cold War in Europe (Year 12 History)

    A brief discussion the Berlin Wall (resources in show notes) Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. Penguin Press, 2005.  Kempe, Frederick. Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth. Putnam, 2011.  Leffler, Melvyn. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. Hill and Wang, 2007.  Sarotte, Mary Elise. The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall. Basic Books, 2014.  Westad, Odd Arne. The Cold War: A World History. Allen Lane, 2017.  Zubok, Vladislav. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. UNC Press, 2007.

    8 min

  8. Jun 21

    The significance of Golda Meir working for and opposing peace (Year 12 History)

    A discussion of Gold Meir and whether she worked for or opposed peace in the Middle East. Shapira, Anita. Israel: A History. Brandeis University Press, 2012.  Oren, Michael. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2002.  Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. Penguin Books, 2014.  Khalidi, Rashid. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Beacon Press, 2006.  Karsh, Efraim. Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1923. Harvard University Press, 1999.  Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2001. Vintage Books, 2001.  United Nations. Resolution 242 and the Middle East Peace Process. UN Publications, 2017.

    26 min
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    Lisa Yang
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