state society Constitution (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq)

Having determined the space/territory of your state-society, made its violent history, institutionalized the
domestic power relations of your polity, and located your state-society in the global network of political-
economic relations and processes, you must now conceive of how your state-society processes the
eruption of crisis. Your group will determine 1) what type of crisis consumes your state-society: food
crisis (food insecurity or famine), climate crisis (crisis of your societys relation with nature), drug
crisis, crisis of political delegitimation, or price inflation crisis; and 2) the changes your state-society
undergoes as it moves through the crisis. Keep in mind that a crisis is always an interruption of
politics/economics/society as usual and an opportunity.

Students explanations must indicate a clear and accurate understanding of these concepts. They must also reflect the students own analysis, both historical and empirical. Explanations are not to be collections of quotations, direct or indirect, from other sources.
Individual students papers must be researched. Each paper must cite at least FOUR academic sources.
Do not submit a paper that has not engaged with published scholarly literature.

Each individual paper must use the Chicago Manual Style for its footnotes and bibliography. Proper acknowledgement of intellectual indebtedness is essential. Improper citation will produce a poor grade.
By way of reminder, you must cite
– direct and partial quotes;
– ideas or theories associated with other people;
– ideas developed from or based on the ideas of others; and
– factual information that is not generally known (if you did not know it before you read it, cite it).

The criteria used to evaluate the individual essay are: integration and development of course concepts, historical and geographic sense and empirical accuracy, organic synthesis of ideas through Stages I-IV, consistency with group narrative (diachronically and synchronically), quality of research and quality of written presentation (i.e. syntax, spelling, organization).