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| Note on contributors | |
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| Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations | |
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| The book and the title | |
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| Studying the international relations of the Middle East | |
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| Organization of the volume | |
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| Chapter outlines | |
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| The international relations of the Middle East and the future | |
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| Theoretical and Historical Overview | |
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| International Relations Theory and the Middle East | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Structural realism and neoliberal institutionalism | |
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| International society and hierarchy | |
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| Constructivism, pragmatic and radical | |
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| Post-structuralism and post-modernism | |
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| Key findings from quantitative research | |
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| Power transitions and the power cycle | |
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| The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System | |
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| Introduction: the Arab entry to international relations | |
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| Ottoman diplomacy | |
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| An Ottoman legacy of statehood | |
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| Wartime plans for the partition of the Middle East | |
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| The post-war settlement, 1919-22 | |
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| The colonial framework | |
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| The Arab states and the Palestine crisis | |
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| The Cold War in the Middle East | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The immediate origins of the cold war | |
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| Oil in the Middle East | |
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| A clash of ideologies | |
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| Elements of a case study: Iraq, the Soviet Union, and the United States, 1945-90 | |
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| The Middle East since the Cold War | |
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| Introduction: the end of Middle East exceptionalism? | |
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| Decoding the Middle East: intermestics | |
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| Oil: a mixed blessing | |
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| Traditional (in)security threats | |
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| Globalization, the yawning resource gap, and newer threats/conflicts | |
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| Religio-politics: from mobilization, to international spillover, to winning elections | |
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| The Arab Spring and its regional impact | |
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| The Arab Spring magnifies intermestics | |
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| Themes in International Relations and International Political Economy | |
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| Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Oil and the consolidation of the Middle Eastern state system | |
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| Oil and the international relations of the Middle East | |
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| Oil and domestic politics: the rentier state paradigm | |
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| Oil and inter-Arab relations | |
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| The regional and international environments and the political order in the Middle East | |
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| The Puzzle of Political Reform in the Middle East | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Explaining the democracy deficit | |
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| Muslims and the question of political reform | |
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| The Arab uprisings of 2011 | |
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| The Politics of Identity in Middle East International Relations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The challenge of nation-building: from empire to states system | |
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| Irredentism and inter-state conflict | |
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| Identity and the Arab uprising | |
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| Identity and foreign policy | |
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| Inter-Arab politics amidst supra-state identity: the rise, decline, and evolution of pan-Arabism | |
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| Islam and International Relations in the Middle East: From Umma to Nation State | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Islam and international relations: history and key concepts | |
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| Pan-Islam, colonialism, and the modem state | |
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| The political economy of Islamic revival | |
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| Islam and geo-politics | |
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| Thinking about Islam and foreign policy | |
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| Islam, globalization, and the Middle East | |
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| Alliances and Regionalism in the Middle East | |
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| Introduction | |
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| International relations theory and the case of the Middle East | |
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| Regions, regionalism, and understanding cooperation | |
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| Middle East regionalism: a review | |
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| The Arab Spring: new regionalism? | |
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| Middle East Security: Continuity amid Change | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Structure and weaknesses of the Arab interstate system | |
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| How the 2011 revolts solved the identity dichotomy: the depoliticization of Arabism and Islamic triumph | |
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| Strengthening of the monarchical axis | |
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| The Gulf's strategic dilemma vis-�-vis the new regional order | |
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| Key Issues and Actors | |
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| Foreign Policymaking in the Middle East: Complex Realism | |
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| Introduction: complex realism | |
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| Framework of analysis | |
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| Comparative foreign policy in the 2000s: explaining foreign policy variation | |
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| The Arab-Israeli Conflict | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From the creation of Israel to the 1967 War | |
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| The 1967 War, Arab nationalist rivalries, and the re-emergence of the Palestinian factor | |
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| From the 1967 war to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty | |
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| From Camp David to Oslo | |
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| Palestine-Israel: 2000-12 | |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Oslo peace process | |
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| The Oslo accord | |
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| Oslo II | |
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| Camp David | |
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| The International Politics of the Gulf | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Regime security, political identity, and Iraqi war decisions | |
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| Regime security, regional balancing, and Saudi Arabian alliance decisions | |
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| US policy in the Gulf | |
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| The War for Regime Change in Iraq | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The international system | |
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| The regional level | |
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| The unit level | |
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| The United States in the Middle East | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The roots of US involvement | |
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| Policymaking: structures and process | |
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| New regional developments | |
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| US responses to 21st-century challenges | |
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| Europe in the Middle East | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Phase I: the imperial era and its legacy | |
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| Phase II: imperial retreat and cold war rivalries | |
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| Phase III: the European Union and regional security | |
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| War, sanctions, and trade | |
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| The Mediterranean neighbourhood | |
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| Europe and the Middle East peace process | |
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| Phase IV: Europe and the Arab uprisings | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |