The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Politics, 3)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures and tables......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
List of abbreviations......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
Methodology of the study......Page 16
Defining the Middle East......Page 18
Civil society, democratisation and peace in the Middle East......Page 21
‘Like-minded’ states, Turkey and the Middle East......Page 22
Organisation of the study......Page 23
Different forms of regional cooperation......Page 26
The development of regionalism......Page 31
Relative failure of regionalism in the developing world......Page 33
Changing global economy......Page 35
Changing international political scene......Page 37
Trends towards economic and political liberalisation in the developing world......Page 38
What is ‘new’ in new regionalism?: Towards ‘deep integration’......Page 39
Exploring prospects and constraints of regionalism in the Middle East......Page 41
3 Political economy of regional cooperation......Page 46
International cooperation: Theoretical basis......Page 47
The level-of-analysis problem......Page 49
The two-level game: A theory of interdependence between domestic and international forces......Page 51
Some conceptual and theoretical problems of two-level games......Page 57
Cooperation in the Middle East: the use of two-level-game perspective......Page 59
The economic structure of the Middle East......Page 65
Climatic characteristics of the Middle East......Page 66
Population dynamics in the Middle East......Page 70
‘Food security’ in the Middle East......Page 75
The Middle East in post-Uruguay round world trade......Page 78
Trends in the level, composition and direction of Middle Eastern trade......Page 79
Sectoral breakdown of intra-regional trade in the Middle East......Page 93
Post-Uruguay Round trade in the Middle East......Page 105
Macro-economic structure and policy-making in the Middle East......Page 106
Conclusion: The need for structural reform and reconstruction......Page 115
5 Potential for regional economic cooperation......Page 119
Areas of potential economic cooperation in the Middle East......Page 135
Water issues......Page 136
Energy-sharing arrangements......Page 139
Economic cooperation in the Middle East: A conceptual framework and assessment......Page 120
A comparison of solutions to water and energy issues in the Middle East from a two-level-game framework......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 144
International Level......Page 145
Effect of the end of the Cold War......Page 149
Regional level......Page 154
Regional pressures for change......Page 157
Domestic level......Page 161
Changes at the domestic level......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 168
Political cooperation: An assessment......Page 170
Democratic peace......Page 180
Political cooperation towards democratic peace in the Middle East......Page 190
Conclusion......Page 194
8 Regional cooperation and the ‘like-minded’ states......Page 196
Turkey and the Middle East in an international context......Page 198
The Kurdish question and difficulties of cooperation......Page 201
Turkey’s urgent economic needs and the Middle East......Page 204
The water problem and the hydropolitics of the Euphrates-Tigris......Page 208
Entry into the Customs Union and its influence on ties with the Middle East......Page 214
Changing domestic dynamics of Middle Eastern foreign policy in Turkey......Page 218
Conclusion......Page 226
9 Conclusion......Page 229
Precautions and avenues for further research......Page 233
Notes......Page 235
Bibliography......Page 239
Bibliography of journals and newspapers......Page 253
Index......Page 254