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International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order

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Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores domestic and international foreign policy dynamics for an accessible insight into how and why Middle Eastern regional order has changed over time. Highlighting interactions between foreign policy trajectories in a range of states including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey, Ewan Stein identifies two main drivers of foreign policy and alignments: competitive support-seeking and ideological externalisation. Clearly linking political, ideological and foreign policy dynamics, Stein demonstrates how the sources of regional antagonisms and solidarities are to be found not in the geopolitical chessboard, but in the hegemonic strategies of the region's pivotal powers. Making the case for historical sociology - in particular the work of Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser - as the most powerful lens through which to understand regional politics in the Middle East, with wider implications for the study of regional order elsewhere.

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  • An accessible course book on international relations in the Middle East covering domestic and international foreign policy dynamics
  • Enables specialist and non-specialist readers to gain insight into how and why Middle Eastern regional order has changed over time
  • Presents a century of foreign policy trajectories in a range of states, including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey
Author: Stein Ewan
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 262
ISBN: 9781316633021
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2021

1. Introduction
2. The Order of Notables (1919-1952)
3. Arab Neutralism and the Cold War (1952-1967)
4. Toward a Middle East State Conglomerate (1967-1979)
5. Regional Order in Khomeini's Shadow (1979-1990)
6. A New Middle East Order? (1990-2001)
7. The Middle East and the Global War on Terror (2001-2011)
8. Regional Order after the Arab Uprisings (2011-2020)
9. Conclusion.

Elisabeth Kendall is Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Oxford University. She is the author of Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt (2006). Ewan Stein is Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Representing Israel in Modern Egypt: Ideas, Intellectuals and Foreign Policy from Nasser to Mubarak (I.B.Tauris, 2012).

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