International Relations of the Middle East

6. Revised Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-289368-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

As the most authoritative and comprehensive overview of international relations in the Middle East, this highly respected textbook is designed to help students get to grips with this important and challenging subject area. A team of expert scholars combines a history of the region with analysis of key themes, actors, developments, and conflicts, to expose students to a wide range of perspectives and approaches and encourage them to think critically in order to draw their own conclusions.

Throughout the text, a range of features support students' learning, including discussion questions and case studies, which demonstrate the relevance of international relations theory to the contemporary Middle East and help students to apply their learning to real-world situations and developments.

This text is supported by online resources to help students take their learning further.

For students:

- Expand your knowledge with an interactive map of the Middle East which provides key information about each state.
- Build on themes covered in each chapter with extended chapter exercises.
- Revise key dates and developments with an interactive timeline.
- Access further reading from reliable sources with a bank of relevant web links.

For registered lecturers:

- Use adaptable PowerPoint slides as the basis for lecture presentations or as hand-outs in class.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fawcett, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations

- Part One: Theoretical and Historical Overview

- 1: Fred H. Lawson: International Relations Theory and the Middle East

- 2: Eugene L. Rogan: The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System

- 3: Louise Fawcett : The Cold War in the Middle East

- 4: Bahgat Korany: The Middle East since the Cold War

- Part Two: Themes in International Relations and International Political Economy

- 5: Giacomo Luciani: Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East

- 6: Raymond Hinnebusch: The Politics of Identity in Middle East International Relations

- 7: Peter Mandaville: Islam and International Relations in the Middle East

- 8: Louise Fawcett: Alliances and Regionalism in the Middle East

- 9: Pinar Bilgin: Security in the Middle East: Whose security?

- Part Three: Key Issues and Actors

- 10: Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami: Foreign Policymaking in the Middle East: Complex Realism

- 11: Charles Smith: The Arab-Israeli Conflict

- 12: Matteo Legrenzi: The International Politics of the Gulf

- 13: Larbi Sadiki: The Arab Spring: The 'People' in International Relations

- 14: Michael C. Hudson and Andrew Payne: The United States in the Middle East

- 15: Roland Dannreuther: Russia, China, and the Middle East

- 16: Raffaella A. Del Sarto: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Louise Fawcett is Professor of International Relations and Wilfrid Knapp Fellow and Tutor in Politics, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, 1995 - present. Her research focuses on comparative regional integration studies and the international relations of developing countries, notably the Middle East. Professor Fawcett is a member of the editorial board of the UK journal International Affairs.

She chairs the International Advisory Board of the UN Centre for Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Belgium; she also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg. In 2020 she was elected to Belgian Royal Academy (Académie Royale de Belgique) as an Associate Member of the Class of Letters and Moral and Political Sciences.