The Middle East and Globalization

1. Front Matter

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2. The Middle East and Globalization

   1. The Middle East and Globalization

      • Stephan Stetter

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3. Fractured Encounters

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   2. Globalization, the Highest Stage of Imperialism

      • Raymond Hinnebusch

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   3. Globalization and Networked Civility in the Arab Region

      • Emma Murphy

      Pages 41-58

   4. Globalization and In/Security

      • Pinar Bilgin

      Pages 59-75

   5. The Globalization of Democracy and the Location of the Middle East in the Contemporary Global Order

      • Andrea Teti

      Pages 77-96

   6. Globalization in a Middle Eastern Regional Perspective

      • Mervat P. Hatem

      Pages 97-113

   7. Settler Colonialism and Its Discontents

      • John Collins

      Pages 115-132

4. Horizons of the Global Condition

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   2. The Middle East, Interstate Norms, and Intervention

      • Fred Halliday

      Pages 135-151

   3. Islamic Reform and the Global Public Sphere

      • Dietrich Jung

      Pages 153-169

   4. The “New Middle East” and the Encounter with the Global Condition

      • Morten Valbjørn

      Pages 171-190

   5. Global Conflict Governance in the Middle East

      • Mitra Moussa Nabo, Stephan Stetter

      Pages 191-208

   6. Globalization, Labor Migration, and Cities in Israel

      • Haim Yacobi

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   7. The Arab State, Identity, and Social Progress

      • Robert Bowker

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5. Back Matter

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The Middle East and Globalization discusses past and contemporary political, societal, economic, and cultural trends in the Middle East against the background of comprehensive theories of globalization. The chapters draw on a shared methodological approach, looking at the fractures and horizons of globalization that are shaping the Middle East.

• conflict
• democracy
• desegregation
• globalization
• Governance
• identity
• intervention
• Israel
• migration
• reform
• society

"Stephan Stetter's edited volume on globalization and the Middle East is a roll call of the critical thinkers on the subject. In fourteen immensely rich chapters, the contributors dig deep into the body of the debates about globalization and present the reader with a feast of ideas and insights on this unique phenomenon. The volume deliberately widens the conceptual boundaries of debates about globalization and regions to include the critical, non-economic aspects of the process: ICTs, civil society, politics of identity, Islamic reform, the role of imperialism, and human development. This volume is unique and rich in method and argument - indeed at a time of great uncertainty in the Middle East this is the kind of sure footing one would need to try to begin and make sense of it all." - Anoush Ehteshami, Nasser Al-Sabah Professor of International Relations, Durham University, UK

"Conceptually rigorous and historically rich, The Middle East and Globalization builds solid bridges between area studies and social science disciplines and contextualizes the study of the region in the era of globalization. Puncturing holes in the notion of Arab and Middle East exceptionalism, the contributors insist that socio-economic and socio-political structures and trends in the region can only be understood in their complexity if studied against the background of globalization, defined as a theoretical concept - an "integrated approach" - to which various social science disciplines contribute. Timely and critical, this volume throws further light on the 2011 large-scale Arab popular uprisings which have shaken the autocratic order to its very foundation and introduced a new language and era of contentious politics that challenges conventional ways of thinking about the region. A must-read for both area studies specialists and theorists." - Fawaz A. Gerges, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, UK

Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey Bob Bowker, Australian National University, Australia John Collins, St. Lawrence University, USA Anoush Ehteshami, Durham University, UK Fred Halliday, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Mervat Hatem, Howard University, UK Raymond Hinnebusch, School of International Relations, St. Andrews University, UK Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark Emma Murphy, Durham University, UK Mitra Moussa Nabo, Universität der Bundeswehr Munich, Germany Stephan Stetter, Universität der Bundeswehr Munich, Germany Andrea Teti, University of Aberdeen, UK Morten Valbjørn, University of Aarhus, Denmark Haim Yacobi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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