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

Title
  1. The Greater Middle East in global politics : social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics / edited by M. Parvizi Amineh.
Published by
  1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Details

Additional authors
  1. Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi.
Description
  1. xxiv, 544 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. International studies in sociology and social anthropology, 0074-8684 ; v. 106
Uniform title
  1. International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 106.
Subject
  1. Azië
  2. Geschichte 1798-2007
  3. Gesellschaft
  4. Internationale Politik
  5. Internationale Politik
  6. Internationalisatie
  7. Middle East
  8. Middle East > Politics and government
  9. Middle East > Social conditions
  10. Mittlerer Osten
  11. Naher Osten
  12. Naher Osten
  13. Nordafrika
  14. Nordafrika
  15. Politics and government
  16. Politik
  17. Rusland
  18. Social conditions
  19. World politics
  20. World politics
  21. Zentralasien
  22. Zentralasien
Genre/Form
  1. Aufsatzsammlung.
Contents
  1. 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-523) and index.
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