The Greater Middle East in global politics : social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics / / edited by M. Parvizi Amineh.

This anthology unites in one volume two studies of the Greater Middle East in global politics – each conceptual and empirical. First, it is a historical-comparative study of politics and societies in selected Greater Middle Eastern countries from Napoleon’s invasion of Ottoman Egypt in 1798 up until...

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Superior document:International studies in sociology and social anthropology, v. 106
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 106.
Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the Greater Middle East / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh
  • Foreign intervention and social transformation in the Greater Middle East. IR-Theory and transformations in the Greater Middle East : the role of the United States / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling
  • Connecting Central Eurasia to the Middle East in American Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan : 1979-Present / Simon Bromley
  • US-Russian strategic relations and the structuration of Central Asia / Robert M. Cutler
  • State, society, and economy in the Greater Middle East. The Iranian Revolution : the multiple contexts of the Iranian Revolution / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and S.N. Eisenstadt
  • Iranian foreign policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution : 1979-2006 / Eva Patricia Rakel
  • The Middle East's democracy decit in comparative perspective / Mehran Kamrava
  • The challenges of modernity : the case of political Islam / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh
  • The Turkish political economy : globalization and regionalism / Nilgun Onder
  • The Maghreb : social, political, and economic developments / Louisa Dris-Ait-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir
  • From Soviet Republics to independent countries : challenges of transition in Central Asia / Mirzohid Rahimov
  • Central Asia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union : economic reforms and their impact on state-society relations / Richard Pomfret
  • New twists, more intricate congurations : the changing Israel-Palestinian regional security complex / Fred Lawson
  • The politics of oil and major power rivalry in the post-cold war Greater Middle East. Global energy security and its geopolitical impediments : the case of the Caspian Region / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling
  • China and the Greater Middle East : globalization no longer equals westernization / Kurt W. Radtke
  • Indian power projection in the Greater Middle East : tools and objectives / Prithvi Ram Mudiam
  • The changing face of the Russian Far East : cooperation and resource competition between Japan, Korea, and China in Northeast Asia / Roger Kangas
  • India-Pakistan engagement with the Greater Middle East : implications and options / B.M. Jain
  • The EU's policies of security of energy supply towards the Middle East and Caspian Region : major power politics? / Femke Hogeveen and Wilbur Perlot.