ISBN:
9781137031754
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (285 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Middle East and Globalization : Encounters and Horizons
DDC:
303.48/256
Keywords:
Globalization
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Globalization
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Geopolitics
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Geopolitics
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Geopolitics - Africa, North
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Geopolitics -- Africa, North
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Geopolitics - Middle East
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Geopolitics -- Middle East
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Globalization - Africa, North
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Globalization -- Africa, North
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Globalization - Middle East
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Globalization -- Middle East
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Middle East and Globalization; The Middle East and Globalization: Encounters and Horizons; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Middle Eastand Globalization: Encounters and Horizons; Introduction and Framework; Moving beyond Interconnections and Sectors; Encounters, Fractures, and Horizons; Overview of the Book; Concluding Remarks; Part 1: Fractured Encounters; Chapter 2: Globalization, the Highest Stage of Imperialism Core-Periphery Dynamics in the Middle East; Globalization through Structuralist Lenses; Globalization and the Role of the Middle East
Description / Table of Contents:
Globalization, Militarization, and the Middle EastThe Impact of Globalizationon the Middle East; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Globalization and Networked Civility in the Arab Region; Introduction; Civility: The Political Culture of Democratic Civil Society; Civility and the New ICTs; The Arab State Fights Back; Civil Society and Itself; Conversations about Conversations; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Globalization and In/Security: Middle Eastern Encounters with International Society and the Case of Turkey; Globalization and In/Security: Mainstream Approaches
Description / Table of Contents:
Encounters with International Society and In/Security: Postcolonial InsightsGlobalization, In/Security, and the Middle East; Globalization, In/Security, and Republican Turkey; Conclusion; Chapter 5: The Globalization of Democracy and the Locationof the Middle East in the Contemporary Global Order; Introduction; Liberal Hegemonies: Democratization's Genealogies and Limitations; Limitations in Practice: Western Democracy-Promotion Policies; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Globalization in a Middle Eastern Regional Perspective: A Postcolonial Reading of the Arab Human Development Reports
Description / Table of Contents:
The Intellectual Debateon GlobalizationThe Arab Human Development Reports; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Settler Colonialism and Its Discontents: A View Forward from the Long 1960s; Introduction; Globalization: Commitments and Angles of Vision; Settler Colonialism and the Long 1960s; The Globalization of Popular Defense; The (Re)Invention of "Terrorism"; Conclusion: Denial and (In)Security; Part 2: Horizons of the Global Condition; Chapter 8: The Middle East, Interstate Norms, and Intervention: The Great Anomaly; Introduction; Intervention in Middle East Politics: The Historical Record; Conclusions
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Chapter 9: Islamic Reform and the Global Public Sphere: Muhammad Abduh and Islamic ModernityMuhammad Abduh I: A Biographical Sketch; World Society: Globalization, Modernization, and the Middle East; The Global Public Sphere: Constructing an Analytical Device; Muhammad Abduh II: A Modern Apologist of Islam; Conclusions: Islamic Modernism, World Culture, and the Search for Authenticity; Notes; Chapter 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; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
The Middle East between Global-Centric and Regional-Centric Perspectives
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