Introduction | Bibliographic Tools | Serials
Monographs | IS 304 | IS 315 | IS 412 | IS 415
Total Costs
**REVISED assessment: June 23, 2008**
This is the library report for:
IS 304: Russian Foreign and Security Policies
IS 315: Introduction to Middle East Politics
IS 412: Central Asia, the Transcaucasus and Russia: Democracy, Development and Conflicts
IS 415: Islamist Trend in Middle East Politics
All of these courses will be taught at SFU Vancouver.
The SFU Library subscribes to a number of Databases that will prove useful for these courses. For example, Index Islamicus, International Political Science Abstracts and PAIS International will all prove useful for these courses.
No additional bibliographic tools are required.
The following journal titles listed on the course outlines are not available at the Belzberg Library. Subscriptions will need to be acquired.
Foreign Affairs $50 (Print only)
Middle East Report $81 (Print only)
Middle East Journal $144 (Print only)
Transitions Online $366
Slavic Review $159 (Print only)
**Serials total: $800. Purchased from existing Library funds. No costs to the School for International Studies.
These courses cover subject areas currently outside the collecting scope of the Belzberg Library. We will need to purchase an average of 10 books/year per course at an average book price of $70.
10 books/year @ $70 x 4 courses = $2,800/year
Additionally, the course outlines revealed gaps in the existing collection. The following titles will also need to be purchased:
IS 304: Russian Foreign and Security Policies
The following titles from the reading list are not available at the Belzberg Library:
Wegreen, S. (ed). Russia's policy challenges : security, stability, and development M E Sharpe. 0765610795. 9780765610799. R4-359070. 2003. $80
Lo, Bobo. Russian foreign policy in the post-Soviet era : reality, illusion, and mythmaking Palgrave Macmillan. 0333775937. 9780333775936. R7-340508. 2002. $116
Jackson, N. Russian foreign policy and the CIS : theories, debates and actions (Routledge advances in international relations and global politics, 24) Routledge. 0415305772. 9780415305778. R0-408464. 2003. $152
The new Russian diplomacy / Igor S. Ivanov ; foreword by Henry A. Kissinger. Nixon Ctr/Brookings Inst Pr. 0815744986. 9780815744986. R1-324085. 2002. $24
Motyl, A., et al (eds). Russia's Engagement with the West : Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century M E Sharpe. 0765614421. 9780765614421. X2-B78555. 2005. $37
Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity (New International Relations of Europe) by Andrei P. Tsygankov. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (June 28, 2006). $27
Jack, Andrew. Inside Putin's Russia / Andrew Jack. Granta Books. 1862076405. 9781862076402. B9-690610. 2004. $40
Baker, Peter. Kremlin rising : Vladimir Putin's Russia and the end of revolution Scribner Classics. 0743264312. 9780743264310. R4-507539. $29
Also note that the BBC film on the course outline, Russian Godfathers, is not in the SFU Library collection, and is not available from the distributor with exclusive Canadian distribution rights for BBC documentaries. There are no holding libraries in BC, so we may not be able to obtain a copy of this film.
**Total for IS 304: $505. To be purchased from existing Library funds. No costs to the School for International Studies.
IS 315: Introduction to Middle East Politics
The following titles from the reading list are not available at the Belzberg Library:
Cleveland, W. A History of the Modern Middle East. Westview Press; Third Edition edition (July 22, 2004). $38
Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944- Corruption NEW PRESS (NY) /W W NORTON & CO (NY) . 1565842952. 9781565842953. V1-C74131. 1995. $20
In addition, the following titles will be purchased to help fill an identifiable collection gap in this subject area at the Belzberg Library:
Bill, James A. Politics in the Middle East Addison Wesley Publishing Company. 0321005376. 9780321005373. 5E. X3-V12829. 1999. $70
Islam, democracy, and the state in North Africa (Indiana Series in Arab & Islamic studies) Indiana University Press. 0253333032. 9780253333032. R1-015880. 1997. $30
**Total for IS 233: $158. To be covered from existing funds. No costs to the School for International Studies.
IS 412: Central Asia, the Transcaucasus and Russia: Democracy, Development and Conflicts
The following titles from the reading list are not available at the Belzberg Library:
Wilson, Andrew. Virtual politics : faking democracy in the post-Soviet world Yale University Press. 0300095457. 9780300095456. R1-503520. 2005. $44
After the collapse of communism : comparative lessons of transitions Cambridge University Press. 0521834848. 9780521834841. R3-462353. 2004. $68
Oil, transition and security in Central Asia (RoutledgeCurzon advances in Central Asian studies, 1) RoutledgeCurzon / Taylor & Francis Inc. 0415310903. 9780415310901. R1-404101. 2003. $131
Gleason, Gregory. Markets and politics in central Asia : structural reform and political change (Economies in transition to the market, v.2) Routledge / Taylor & Francis Inc. 041527396X. 9780415273961. R6-369855. 2003. $132
Trenin, Dmitri. The end of Eurasia : Russia on the border between geopolitics and globalization / Dmitri Trenin. Carnegie Endowment/Brookings Inst Pr. 0870031902. 9780870031908. R7-297076. 2002. $26
Central Asian security : the new international context Brookings Institution. 0815701055. 9780815701057. R2-236029. 2001. $24
Conflict, cleavage, and change in Central Asia and the Caucasus Cambridge University Press (US). 0521592461. 9780521592468. N2-989642. 1997. $84
**Total for IS 412: $509. TO be purchased from existing Library funds. No costs to the School for International Studies.
IS 415: Islamist Trend in Middle East Politics
The following titles will be purchased to help fill an identifiable collection gap in this subject area at the Belzberg Library:
Fadl, Abou El Khaled. Great Theft : Wrestling Islam from the Extremists HarperCollins (US). 0061189030. 9780061189036. X5-418657. In Stock US. 2007. US. $16
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy: A "Boston Review" Book (Boston Review Book) by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Joshua Cohen, and Deborah Chasman (Paperback - Mar 8, 2004) $16
Esposito, John L. Islam and democracy Oxford University Press Inc. 0195102967. 9780195102963. L6-379155. 1996. $69
Qutb, Sayyid. Milestones Maktabah Publications. 0954866517. 9780954866518. X9-L38191. 2006. $20
Islamic legal interpretation : muftis and their fatwas Harvard University Press. 0674468708. 9780674468702. X9-M94795. 1996. UK. $65
Lia, Brynjar. The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt : the rise of an Islamic Mass Movement 1928-1942 Ithaca Press. 0863723144. 9780863723148. X1-F71058. 2006. $36
Pioneers of Islamic revival (Studies in Islamic society) Zed Books Ltd / SIRD. / WBP.. 1842776142. 9781842776148. re v.. R8-559380. 2005. US. $79
Abou El Fadl, Khaled. Islam and the challenge of democracy Princeton University Press. 0691118418. 9780691118413. X7-052147. 2004. $44
Hamzeh, A. Nizar. In the path of Hizbullah (Modern intellectual & political history of the Middle East) Syracuse University Press. 0815630530. 9780815630531. R4-470525. 2004. $26
Kepel, Gilles. Muslim extremism in Egypt : the prophet and pharaoh / Gilles Kepel ; translated from the French by Jon Rothschild. U Calif Pr. 0520239342. 9780520239340. R7-369619. 2003. $21
White, Jenny B. Islamist mobilization in Turkey : a study in vernacular politics (Studies in modernity & national identity) University of Washington Press. 0295982233. 9780295982236. R7-331081. 2002. $37
Wiktorowicz, Quintan The management of Islamic activism : Salafis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and state power in Jordan (SUNY Series in Middle Eastern studies) State University of New York Press. 0791448355. 9780791448359. R6-240868. 2001. $84
Esposito John L Makers of Contemporary Islam John L. Esposito John Obert Voll Oxford University Press. 019514127X. 9780195141276. R4-234263. 2001. $47
Mishal, Shaul. The Palestinian Hamas : vision, violence, and coexistence Columbia University Press. 0231116748. 9780231116749. R0-164198. 2000. $77
The Veil and the Male Elite by Fatima Mernissi, Fatema Mernissi, and Mary Jo Lakeland (Paperback - Dec 20, 1992) . $13
Esposito, John L. Islam : the straight path Oxford University Press. 0195112334. 9780195112337. 3rd ed. rev.. R1-025079. 1998. $32
Said, Edward W. Covering Islam : how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world Vintage Books US / Random House. 0679758909. 9780679758907. Rev. ed., 1st Vintage Books ed.. N9-959169. 1997. $15
**Total for IS 415: $697. To be covered from existing Library funds. No costs to the School for International Studies.
One time costs:
Total one-time monographs costs: $1,869. To be covered from existing Library funds. No costs to the School for International Studies.
Ongoing costs:
Total ongoing monograph costs: $2,800/year. To be covered by the School for International Studies.
Total ongoing serials costs: $800/year. To be covered from existing Library funds. No costs to the School for International Studies.