The Greater Middle East in Global Politics: Social Science Perspective on the Changing Geography of the World Politics (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology)

Contents\r......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
List of Contributors......Page 16
List of Abbreviations......Page 22
I. Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Greater Middle East (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh)......Page 26
PART ONE FOREIGN INTERVENTION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST......Page 66
II. IR-Theory and Transformation in the Greater Middle East: The Role of the United States (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling)......Page 68
III. Connecting Central Eurasia to the Middle East in American Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan: 1979–Present (Simon Bromley)......Page 100
IV. US-Russian Strategic Relations and the Structuration of Central Asia (Robert M. Cutler)......Page 122
PART TWO STATE, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST......Page 140
V. The Iranian Revolution: The Multiple Contexts of the Iranian Revolution (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and S.N. Eisenstadt)......Page 142
VI.  Iranian Foreign Policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution: 1979–2006 (Eva Patricia Rakel)......Page 172
VII. The Middle East\'s Democracy Deficit in Comparative Perspective (Mehran Kamrava)......Page 202
VIII. The Challenges of Modernity: The Case of Political Islam (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh)......Page 228
IX. The Turkish Political Economy: Globalization and Regionalism (Nilgun Onder)......Page 242
X. The Maghreb: Social, Political, and Economic Developments (Louisa Dris-Aït-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir)......Page 274
XI. From Soviet Republics to Independent Countries:  Challenges of Transition in Central Asia (Mirzohid Rahimov)......Page 304
XII. Central Asia since the Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Economic Reforms and Their Impact on State-Society Relations (Richard Pomfret)......Page 326
XIII. New Twists, More Intricate Configurations: The Changing Israel-Palestinian Regional Security Complex (Fred H. Lawson)......Page 358
PART THREE THE POLITICS OF OIL AND MAJOR POWER RIVALRY IN THE POST-COLD WAR GREATER MIDDLE EAST......Page 376
XIV. Global Energy Security and Its Geopolitical Impediments: The Case of the Caspian Region (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling)......Page 378
XV. China and the Greater Middle East: Globalization No Longer Equals Westernization (Kurt W. Radtke)......Page 402
XVI. Indian Power Projection in the Greater Middle East: Tools and Objectives (Prithvi Ram Mudiam)......Page 430
XVII. The Changing Face of the Russian Far East: Cooperation and Resource Competition between Japan, Korea, and China in Northeast Asia (Roger Kangas)......Page 454
XVIII. India-Pakistan Engagement with the Greater Middle East: Implications and Options (B.M. Jain)......Page 474
XIX. The EU\'s Policies of Security of Energy Supply towards the Middle East and Caspian Region: Major Power Politics? (Femke Hoogeveen and Wilbur Perlot)......Page 498
Bibliography......Page 522
Index......Page 550