Regional Insecurity After the Arab Uprisings: Narratives of Security and Threat

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Narratives of (In)security and (In)stability in the Middle East....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Region, Security, Regional Security: “Whose Middle East?” Revisited....Pages 19-39
Regionalizing Security in the Middle East: Connecting the Regional and the Global....Pages 40-57
Sub-regions and Security in the Arab Middle East: “hierarchical interdependence” in Gulf-Levant Relations....Pages 58-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Self-Other Constructions, Difference and Threat: US and Arab “Othering” of Iran....Pages 85-106
Whose Security Lens on Gender Matters in the Arab Uprisings?....Pages 107-128
The Geopolitics of the Sunni-Shia Rift....Pages 129-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
A Resurgence in Arab Regional Institutions? The Cases of the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council Post-2011....Pages 151-167
The Season’s Pendulum: Arab Spring Politics and Israeli Security....Pages 168-186
Neighbourhood Narratives From “Zero Problems With Neighbours” to “Precious Loneliness”: Turkey’s Resecuritized Middle East Policy After the Arab Spring....Pages 187-203
The Middle East Torn Between Rival Choices: Islamism, International Security and Democratic Peace....Pages 204-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-226