Regional security in the Middle East : a critical perspective / Pinar Bilgin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bilgin, Pinar, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

National security.

Diplomatic relations.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

In this new and fully revised edition Pinar Bilgin provides an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East. Using a non-realist approach, the author offers a comprehensive study of pasts, presents and futures of security in the region. The book distinguishes itself from previous (critical) studies on regional security by opening up both 'region' and 'security'. Different from those approaches that bracket one or the other, this study takes seriously the constitutive relationship between (inventing) regions, and (conceptions and practices of) security. There is not one Middle East but many, shaped by the insecurities of those who voice them. This book focuses on how present-day insecurities have their roots in practices that have, throughout history, been shaped by 'geopolitical inventions of security'. In doing so, the book lays the contours of a framework for thinking critically about regional security in this part of the world.

Contents:

Cold war pasts of security thinking

Cold war representations of the Middle East

Practices of security during the Cold War

Post-cold war presents of security thinking

Post-cold war representations of the Middle East

Practices of security in the post-Cold War era

Conclusion : futures of the Middle East.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-20412-6

1-351-79008-0

1-351-79007-2

9781315204123

OCLC:

1054261296