The Middle East and Globalization: Encounters and Horizons [Paperback]

The Middle East and Globalization discusses past and contemporary political, societal, economic, and cultural trends in the Middle East against the background of comprehensive theories of globalization. The chapters draw on a shared methodological approach, looking at the fractures and horizons of globalization that are shaping the Middle East.1. The Middle East and Globalization: Encounters and Horizons; Stephan Stetter 2. Globalization, the Highest Stage of Imperialism: Core-periphery Dynamics in the Middle East; Raymond Hinnebusch 3. Globalization and Networked Civility in the Arab Region; Emma Murphy 4. Globalization and in/Security: Middle Eastern Encounters with International Society: The Case of Turkey; Pinar Bilgin 5. The Globalization of Democracy and the Location of the Middle East in the Contemporary Global Order; Andrea Teti 6. Globalization in a Middle Eastern Regional Perspective: A Postcolonial Reading of the Arab Human Development Reports; Mervat F. Hatem 7. Settler Colonialism and Its Discontents: A View Forward from the Long 1960s; John Collins 8. The Middle East, Interstate Norms, and Intervention: The Great Anomaly; Fred Halliday 9. Islamic Reform and the Global Public Sphere: Muhammad Abduh and Islamic Modernity; Dietrich Jung 10. The 'New Middle East' and the Encounter with the Global Condition: Exploring the Global/Regional Interplay from the Perspective of the New English School; Morten Valbj?rn 11. Global Conflict Governance in the Middle East: World Society, Conflict Management in Lebanon, and the International Crisis Group; Mitra Moussa Nabo and Stephan Stetter 12. Globalization, Labor Migration, and Cities in Israel; Haim Yacobi 13. The Arab State, Identity, and Social Progress: Egypt, Globalization and the Challenges of Integrationl; Robert Bowker

Stephan Stetter's edited volume on globalization and the Middle East is a roll call of the critical thinkers on the subject. In fourteen immensely rich chapters, the contributors dig dl£Â