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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 | |