World society and the Middle East
Subtitle: reconstructions in regional politics
By: Stephan Stetter.
Series: Rethinking peace and conflict studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781403995773
Subjects: Interregionalism -- Middle East.; Group identity -- Middle East.; Politics and war -- Middle East.; Globalization -- Middle East.; Middle East -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : globalization, world society and the study of the Middle East in international relations; title: World society and the Middle East : introductory remarks; title: Addressing globalization and the Middle East; title: Theories of globalization and world society; title: A world society perspective on the Middle East; title: Outline of the book; title: Regionalization and debordering : the Middle East between global interconnectivity and functional differentiation; title: Relocating the Middle East; title: Debordering the Middle East; title: Bordering Palestine; title: Jerusalem as a world city; title: Rebordering the Middle East; title: The creeping antagonization of Middle East politics; title: Power and contestations : crossings the lines between power and powerlessness in the Middle East; title: Mystifications of power in the Middle East; title: Readdressing cycles of power and powerlessness; title: Frozen crossings : the naked visibility of power in Middle East politics; title: The inflationary symbolization of power in the Middle East; title: The centrality of violence in the Middle East reconsidered; title: Hot contestations : paradoxes of power and powerlessness; title: Inclusion and exclusion : fragile strategies of deparadoxification in the Middle East; title: Inclusion and exclusion in Middle East politics; title: Inclusion/exclusion and the creeping antagonization of Middle East politics; title: Another Middle East mosaic : extended frozen crossings and chain exclusions; title: Re-reading the 'crisis' of education in the Middle East; title: Women, men and the Middle East; title: World society and the polycontextuality of inclusion/exclusion; title: Rethinking conflicts and peace in the Middle East; title: Identities and conflicts : the 'deep perturbation' of Middle East politics; title: Constructions and all that : identities and conflicts in the Middle East; title: Antagonized identities, 'deep perturbations' and conflict systems; title: Revisiting identities and conflicts in Middle East politics; title: The institutionalization of antagonisms in Middle East politics; title: Identity as the ideological battleground of Middle East conflicts; title: World society and Middle East conflicts; title: Beyond Orientalization and civilization : concluding remarks; title: Whither peace in the Middle East?