Routledge handbook of international relations in the Middle East / edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akbarzadeh, Shahram, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Middle East--Foreign relations--21st century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This handbook book examines the regional and international dynamics of the Middle East. It challenges the state society dichotomy to make sense of decision making and behaviour by ruling regimes. The 28 chapters include the world's leading scholars of the Middle East and International Relations (IR) in order to make sense of the region. This synthesis of area studies expertise and IR theory provides a unique and rigorous account of the region's current dynamics, which have reached crisis point since the beginning of the Arab Spring. The Middle East has been characterised by volatility for more than a century. Although the region attracts significant scholarly interest, IR theory has rarely been used as a tool to understand events. The constructivist approach in IR highlights the significance of state identity, shaped by history and culture, in making sense of international relations. The authors of this volume consider how IR theory can elucidate the patterns and principles that shape the region, in order to provide a rigorous account of the contemporary challenges of the Middle East. The Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East provides a comprehensive coverage of International Relations issues in the region. Thus, it offers key resources for researchers and students interested in International Relations and the Middle East.

Contents:

Biographical notes

The blurred line between state identity and realpolitik / Shahram Akbarzadeh

Neoclassical realism : domestic politics, systemic pressures, and the impact on foreign policy since the Arab Spring / Thomas Juneau, Steven E. Lobell, Norrin Ripsman and Larry Rubin

What constructivism? / Vendulka Kubálková

Historical sociology and Middle East international relations / Ewan Stein

Subaltern realism meets the Arab world / Mohammad Ayoob

Islam, political Islam, and the state system / Frederic Volpi

Don't shoot the elephant : Middle East stability after the Iranian nuclear deal / Patricia Lewis and Karim Kemal

The revolutionary guard in Iranian domestic and foreign power politics ? Farzan Sabet and Roozbeh Safshekan

The Arab uprising and regional power struggle / Raymond Hinnesbuch

U.S.-Israel relations during the Obama administration : fundamental shift, or adaptation to new realities? / Professor Robert Looney

Saudi Arabia and Iran : Islam and foreign policy in the Middle East / Simon Mabon

The Arab Spring and Russian foreign policy toward the Middle East / Mark Katz

China's foray into the Middle East : from ambivalence to ambition? / Michael Clarke

Oil production, innovation, and politics in the Middle East / Hamid E. Ali

Qatar : an ambitious small state / Matthew Gray

GCC foreign policy : the struggle for consensus / Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

EU policy in the Middle East : shifting dynamics / Christian Koch

Old and new challenges for ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East / Jordi Tejel

UNSCR 1325 : a framework for women's peace activism in the Middle East? / Sophie Richter-Devroe

The demise of the arab strongman? Authoritarianism and the future of the Middle East / Pietro Marzo and Francesco Cavatorta

State breakdown and its beneficiaries : the Kurds / Denise Natali

Strategic decision-making of Middle Eastern armed non-state actors / Wietse van den Berge

Islamic state : aberration, or accelerant of system-wide changes to come? / Michael S. Smith II

The Iran-Hizbullah relationship in the Arab Spring / Shahram Akbarzadeh

The Muslim Brotherhood and an-Nahda after the Arab Spring : a failed project / Alison Pargeter

Transition and the Arab Spring / George Joffe

Shock absorption Palestinian-Israel status quo 2009-17 / Philip Leech-Ngo

The rise and fall of Turkey in the Arab Spring / Paul Williams.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781351859530

1351859536

9781351859523

1351859528

9781351859516

135185951X

9781315229591

1315229595

OCLC:

1076413085

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