The Greater Middle East in global politics
Subtitle: social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics
By: edited by M. Parvizi Amineh.
Contributors: Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi.
Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004158597
Subjects: World politics; Middle East -- Politics and government; Middle East -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the Greater Middle East / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh; title: Foreign intervention and social transformation in the Greater Middle East. IR-Theory and transformations in the Greater Middle East : the role of the United States / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling; title: Connecting Central Eurasia to the Middle East in American Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan : 1979-Present / Simon Bromley; title: US-Russian strategic relations and the structuration of Central Asia / Robert M. Cutler; title: State, society, and economy in the Greater Middle East. The Iranian Revolution : the multiple contexts of the Iranian Revolution / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and S.N. Eisenstadt; title: The Iranian foreign policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution : 1979-2006 / Eva Patricia Rakel; title: The Middle East's democracy decit in comparative perspective / Mehran Kamrava; title: The challenges of modernity : the case of political Islam / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh; title: The Turkish political economy : globalization and regionalism / Nilgun Onder; title: The Maghreb : social, political, and economic developments / Louisa Dris-Ait-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir; title: From Soviet Republics to independent countries : challenges of transition in Central Asia / Mirzohid Rahimov; title: Central Asia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union : economic reforms and their impact on state-society relations / Richard Pomfret; title: New twists, more intricate congurations : the changing Israel-Palestinian regional security complex / Fred Lawson; title: The politics of oil and major power rivalry in the post-cold war Greater Middle East. Global energy security and its geopolitical impediments : the case of the Caspian Region / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling; title: China and the Greater Middle East : globalization no longer equals westernization / Kurt W. Radtke; title: Indian power projection in the Greater Middle East : tools and objectives / Prithvi Ram Mudiam; title: The changing face of the Russian Far East : cooperation and resource competition between Japan, Korea, and China in Northeast Asia / Roger Kangas; title: India-Pakistan engagement with the Greater Middle East : implications and options / B.M. Jain; title: The EU's policies of security of energy supply towards the Middle East and Caspian Region : major power politics? / Femke Hogeveen and Wilbur Perlot.