This book brings together a distinguished cast of theorists and Middle East experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the region's history and how its own traditions have mixed, often uncomfortably, with the political structures imposed by the expansion of Western international society.
Author(s): Barry Buzan, Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 288
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
List of Arabic Terms......Page 17
1 The Middle East and Conceptions of ‘International Society’......Page 22
2 The Middle East through English School Theory......Page 45
3 The Ottoman Empire and its Precedents from the Perspective of English School Theory......Page 66
4 The Middle East Encounter with the Expansion of European International Society......Page 91
5 The Primary Institutions of the Middle Eastern Regional Interstate Society......Page 113
6 The Secondary Institutions of the Middle Eastern Regional Interstate Society......Page 138
7 Arab Nationalism(s) in Transformation: From Arab Interstate Societies to an Arab-Islamic World Society......Page 161
8 Islam, the Middle East and the Pan-Islamic Movement......Page 191
9 Order and Change in the Middle East: A Neo-Gramscian Twist on the International Society Approach......Page 222
10 Conclusions......Page 247
Bibliography......Page 272
A......Page 285
B......Page 286
C......Page 287
E......Page 288
G......Page 289
I......Page 290
J......Page 292
M......Page 293
N......Page 294
P......Page 295
Q......Page 296
S......Page 297
U......Page 299
W......Page 300
Z......Page 301
