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Zusatztext "With 'blow back' from the 2011 Arab uprisings continuing! Dr Elizabeth Monier has identified authors with insightful knowledge of the developments! actors and trends involved. The result is a superb collection of chapters which will intrigue the serious student of Middle Eastern politics! while providing an invaluable contribution to any academic syllabus dealing with the changing security environment in a part of the world where the threat of Armageddon is recurrent.'' - Mark G. Hambley! former US Consul General in Alexandria and Jeddah and Ambassador to Qatar and Lebanon ''Regional Insecurity After the Arab Uprisings examines critical aspects of Middle Eastern security by broadening the analysis to include human security. A breath of fresh air in Security Studies! which is still dominated by a narrow focus on militarism! the volumem will expand the debate on the challenge of security in a new Middle East transformed by contentious politics and civil wars.'' Fawaz A. Gerges! Emirates Chair in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies! London School of Economics! UK Informationen zum Autor Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent UniversityMarina Calculli, American University of BeirutBezen Balamir Coskun, Zirve University, GaziantepLouise Fawcett, University of Oxford, UKSally Khalifa Isaac, Cairo University, EgyptTami Amanda Jacoby, University of Manitoba, CanadaAugustus Richard Norton, Boston University, USASybille Reinke de Buitrago, University of Hamburg (IFSH), GermanyMariz Tadros, University of Sussex, UKBassam Tibi, University of Goettingen, Germany Klappentext This book presents an in-depth exploration of the impact of the Arab Uprisings on the relationship between constructions of (in)security, narratives of threat and patterns of socio-political change within the Middle East and North Africa region. It also offers insights into the study of regional security and the operation of threat perceptions. Zusammenfassung This book presents an in-depth exploration of the impact of the Arab Uprisings on the relationship between constructions of (in)security! narratives of threat and patterns of socio-political change within the Middle East and North Africa region. It also offers insights into the study of regional security and the operation of threat perceptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Narratives of (in)Security and (in)Stability in the Middle East; Elizabeth Monier PART I: REGIONAL APPROACHES TO SECURITY: THE CASE OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 2. Region, Security, Regional Security: 'Whose Middle East?', Revisited; Pinar Bilgin 3. Regionalising Security in the Middle East: Connecting the Regional and the Global; Louise Fawcett 4. Sub-regions and Security in the Arab Middle East: Managing Interdependence and Isolationism; Marina Calculli PART II: IDENTITY AND THREAT PERCEPTIONS AS REGIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES 5. Perceiving Difference as Threat: US and Arab 'Othering' of Iran; Sybille Reinke de Buitrago 6. Whose Security Lens on Gender Matters in the Arab Uprisings?; Mariz Tadros 7. The Geopolitics of the Sunni-Shi'i Rift; Augustus Richard Norton 8. A Resurgence in Arab Regional Institutions? The Cases of the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council Post-2011; Sally Khalifa Isaac 9. The Season's Pendulum: Arab Spring Politics and Israeli Security; Tami Amanda Jacoby 10. Neighbourhood Narratives from 'zero problems with neighbours' to 'precious loneliness': Turkey's Re-securitized Middle East Policy after the Arab Spring; Bezen Balamir Co?kun 11. Islamism, International Security and Democratic Peace; Bassam Tibi...
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1. Introduction: Narratives of (in)Security and (in)Stability in the Middle East; Elizabeth Monier PART I: REGIONAL APPROACHES TO SECURITY: THE CASE OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 2. Region, Security, Regional Security: 'Whose Middle East?', Revisited; Pinar Bilgin 3. Regionalising Security in the Middle East: Connecting the Regional and the Global; Louise Fawcett 4. Sub-regions and Security in the Arab Middle East: Managing Interdependence and Isolationism; Marina Calculli PART II: IDENTITY AND THREAT PERCEPTIONS AS REGIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES 5. Perceiving Difference as Threat: US and Arab 'Othering' of Iran; Sybille Reinke de Buitrago 6. Whose Security Lens on Gender Matters in the Arab Uprisings?; Mariz Tadros 7. The Geopolitics of the Sunni-Shi'i Rift; Augustus Richard Norton 8. A Resurgence in Arab Regional Institutions? The Cases of the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council Post-2011; Sally Khalifa Isaac 9. The Season's Pendulum: Arab Spring Politics and Israeli Security; Tami Amanda Jacoby 10. Neighbourhood Narratives from 'zero problems with neighbours' to 'precious loneliness': Turkey's Re-securitized Middle East Policy after the Arab Spring; Bezen Balamir Co?kun 11. Islamism, International Security and Democratic Peace; Bassam Tibi
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"With 'blow back' from the 2011 Arab uprisings continuing, Dr Elizabeth Monier has identified authors with insightful knowledge of the developments, actors and trends involved. The result is a superb collection of chapters which will intrigue the serious student of Middle Eastern politics, while providing an invaluable contribution to any academic syllabus dealing with the changing security environment in a part of the world where the threat of Armageddon is recurrent.'' - Mark G. Hambley, former US Consul General in Alexandria and Jeddah and Ambassador to Qatar and Lebanon
''Regional Insecurity After the Arab Uprisings examines critical aspects of Middle Eastern security by broadening the analysis to include human security. A breath of fresh air in Security Studies, which is still dominated by a narrow focus on militarism, the volumem will expand the debate on the challenge of security in a new Middle East transformed by contentious politics and civil wars.'' Fawaz A. Gerges, Emirates Chair in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, London School of Economics, UK
