- Dedication
- Preface to the fifth edition
- How to use this book
- How to use the online resources
- Note on contributors
- New to this edition
- Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations
- 1. International Relations Theory and the Middle East
- 2. The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System
- 3. The Cold War in the Middle East
- 4. The Middle East Since the Cold War: Movement without Progress
- 5. Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East
- 6. The Puzzle of Political Reform in the Middle East
- 7. The Politics of Identity in Middle East International Relations
- 8. Islam and International Relations in the Middle East: From <i>Umma</i> to Nation State
- 9. Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East
- 10. Middle East Security: The Politics of Violence after the 2003 Iraq War
- 11. Foreign Policymaking in the Middle East: Complex Realism
- 12. The Arab–Israeli Conflict
- 13. The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process
- 14. The International Politics of the Gulf
- 15. The Arab Spring: The ‘People’ in International Relations
- 16. The United States in the Middle East
- 17. Russia, China, and the Middle East
- 18. Europe in the Middle East
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
(p. 1) Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations
- Chapter:
- (p. 1) Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations
- Author(s):
Louise Fawcett
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780198809425.003.0019
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the study of international relations in the Middle East. The two disciplines of international relations and Middle East studies are highly interdependent. No book on the contemporary politics of the Middle East can possibly ignore the way in which external forces have shaped the development of the region's politics, economics, and societies. Similarly, no international relations text can ignore the rich cases that the Middle East has supplied, and how they illuminate different theories and concepts of the discipline, whether in respect of patterns of war and peace, identity politics, or international political economy. The chapter then looks at some of the particular problems that arise in studying the international relations of the Middle East.
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- Dedication
- Preface to the fifth edition
- How to use this book
- How to use the online resources
- Note on contributors
- New to this edition
- Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations
- 1. International Relations Theory and the Middle East
- 2. The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System
- 3. The Cold War in the Middle East
- 4. The Middle East Since the Cold War: Movement without Progress
- 5. Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East
- 6. The Puzzle of Political Reform in the Middle East
- 7. The Politics of Identity in Middle East International Relations
- 8. Islam and International Relations in the Middle East: From <i>Umma</i> to Nation State
- 9. Regionalism and Alliances in the Middle East
- 10. Middle East Security: The Politics of Violence after the 2003 Iraq War
- 11. Foreign Policymaking in the Middle East: Complex Realism
- 12. The Arab–Israeli Conflict
- 13. The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process
- 14. The International Politics of the Gulf
- 15. The Arab Spring: The ‘People’ in International Relations
- 16. The United States in the Middle East
- 17. Russia, China, and the Middle East
- 18. Europe in the Middle East
- Bibliography
- Subject Index