World Society and the Middle East Reconstructions in Regional Politics

by Stetter, Stephan; Richmond, Oliver P.

• ISBN13: 9781403995773
• ISBN10: 140399577X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book ffers a novel cross-disciplinary theoretical perspective on conflict and conflict transformation in world society, and integrates the study of conflicts in the Middle East region into a modern systems theoretical framework.

Author Biography

STEPHAN STETTER is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His main areas of expertise are IR theory, Middle East politics and society, EU foreign policies, and Euro-Mediterranean relations. He is author of Territorial Conflicts in World Society, The Middle East under Fire?, EU Foreign and Interior Policies and The European Union and Border Conflicts.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
World Society and the Middle East
Introduction: Globalization, World Society and the Study of the Middle East in International Relations	p. 3
World Society and the Middle East: introductory remarks	p. 3
Addressing globalization and the Middle East	p. 8
Theories of globalization and world society	p. 13
A world society perspective on the Middle East	p. 25
Outline of the book	p. 30
Regionalization and Debordering: the Middle East between Global Interconnectivity and Functional Differentiation	p. 35
Relocating the Middle East	p. 35
Debordering the Middle East	p. 41
Bordering Palestine	p. 43
Jerusalem as a world city	p. 54
Rebordering the Middle East	p. 62
The Creeping Antagonization of Middle East Politics
Power and Contestations: Crossings the Lines between Power and Powerlessness in the Middle East	p. 69
Mystifications of power in the Middle East	p. 69
Readdressing cycles of power and powerlessness	p. 73
Frozen crossings: the naked visibility of power in Middle East politics	p. 81
The inflationary symbolization of power in the Middle East	p. 87
The centrality of violence in the Middle East reconsidered	p. 93
Hot contestations: paradoxes of power and powerlessness	p. 99
Inclusion and Exclusion: Fragile Strategies of Deparadoxification in the Middle East	p. 105
Inclusion and exclusion in Middle East politics	p. 105
Inclusion/exclusion and the creeping antagonization of Middle East politics	p. 108
Another Middle East mosaic: extended frozen crossings and chain exclusions	p. 118
Re-reading the 'crisis' of education in the Middle East	p. 122
Women, men and the Middle East	p. 129
World society and the polycontextuality of inclusion/exclusion	p. 135
Rethinking Conflicts and Peace in the Middle East
Identities and Conflicts: the 'Deep Perturbation' of Middle East Politics	p. 141
Constructions and all that: identities and conflicts in the Middle East	p. 141
Antagonized identities, 'deep perturbations' and conflict systems	p. 144
Revisiting identities and conflicts in Middle East politics	p. 154
The institutionalization of antagonisms in Middle East politics	p. 157
Identity as the ideological battleground of Middle East conflicts	p. 163
World society and Middle East conflicts	p. 168
Beyond Orientalization and Civilization: Concluding Remarks	p. 171
Whither peace in the Middle East?	p. 171
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 216
Index	p. 236
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