The Greater Middle East in global politics : social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics / edited by M. Parvizi Amineh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi.

Series:

International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 106.

International studies in sociology and social anthropology, 0074-8684 ; v. 106

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics.

Middle East--Politics and government.

Middle East.

Middle East--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This anthology unites in one volume two studies of the Greater Middle East in global politics – each conceptual and empirical. First, it is a historical-comparative study of politics and societies in selected Greater Middle Eastern countries from Napoleon’s invasion of Ottoman Egypt in 1798 up until today. It addresses development and change in these societies as results of the complex interactions between external developments, the rise and expansion of European industrialized powers, and internal developments, the disintegration of Islamic Empires, their transformation into nation-states, and their efforts to industrialize and modernize. Second, it is an empirical case study of states and societies of the Greater Middle East in global politics, addressing themes such as nationalism, revolution, political Islam, democracy, globalization, regionalism, revolution, war, energy, and conflict and cooperation. The book is comprised of three parts and nineteen chapters. Contributors include: Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Simon Bromley, Robert M. Cutler, Louisa Dris-Aït-Hamadouche, S.N. Eisenstadt, Femke Hoogeveen, Henk Houweling, B.M. Jain, Mehran Kamrava, Roger Kangas, Fred H. Lawson, Prithvi Ram Mudiam, Nilgun Onder, Wilbur Perlot, Richard Pomfret, Kurt W. Radtke, Mirzohid Rahimov, Eva Patricia Rakel, and Yahia H. Zoubir.

Contents:

Introduction : theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the Greater Middle East / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh

Foreign intervention and social transformation in the Greater Middle East. IR-Theory and transformations in the Greater Middle East : the role of the United States / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling

Connecting Central Eurasia to the Middle East in American Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan : 1979-Present / Simon Bromley

US-Russian strategic relations and the structuration of Central Asia / Robert M. Cutler

State, society, and economy in the Greater Middle East. The Iranian Revolution : the multiple contexts of the Iranian Revolution / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and S.N. Eisenstadt

Iranian foreign policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution : 1979-2006 / Eva Patricia Rakel

The Middle East's democracy decit in comparative perspective / Mehran Kamrava

The challenges of modernity : the case of political Islam / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh

The Turkish political economy : globalization and regionalism / Nilgun Onder

The Maghreb : social, political, and economic developments / Louisa Dris-Ait-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir

From Soviet Republics to independent countries : challenges of transition in Central Asia / Mirzohid Rahimov

Central Asia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union : economic reforms and their impact on state-society relations / Richard Pomfret

New twists, more intricate congurations : the changing Israel-Palestinian regional security complex / Fred Lawson

The politics of oil and major power rivalry in the post-cold war Greater Middle East. Global energy security and its geopolitical impediments : the case of the Caspian Region / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling

China and the Greater Middle East : globalization no longer equals westernization / Kurt W. Radtke

Indian power projection in the Greater Middle East : tools and objectives / Prithvi Ram Mudiam

The changing face of the Russian Far East : cooperation and resource competition between Japan, Korea, and China in Northeast Asia / Roger Kangas

India-Pakistan engagement with the Greater Middle East : implications and options / B.M. Jain

The EU's policies of security of energy supply towards the Middle East and Caspian Region : major power politics? / Femke Hogeveen and Wilbur Perlot.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-523) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-92171-8

9786611921712

90-474-2209-0

OCLC:

609785351

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004158597.i-544 DOI