Regional Security in the Middle East : A Critical Perspective.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition -- Preface to the 2004 edition -- Introduction -- Thinking past the Middle East approach to regional security -- Arguing against Middle East exceptionalism -- Aims and organisation of the book -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Pasts -- 1. Cold War pasts of security thinking -- Cold War thinking on security -- Cold War critics of security thinking -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. Cold War representations of the Middle East -- 'Where is the Middle East?' -- The Middle East as a geopolitical invention -- The United States and Cold War Middle Easts -- Is there a Middle East? -- Writing the Middle East -- Not my Middle East! -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Practices of security during the Cold War -- Securing the Middle East -- Securing the Arab world -- A struggle for prevalence: the Arab Cold War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Presents -- 4. Post-Cold War presents of security thinking -- (Exposing) the politics of security -- Broadening security -- Referent(s) of security -- Agency -- Eurocentrism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. Post-Cold War representations of the Middle East -- The Arab world -- The Euro-Mediterranean -- The Muslim world -- From 'New' to 'Greater' Middle East -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Practices of security in the post-Cold War era -- Security in the Arab world -- Security in the Euro-Mediterranean -- Security in the Muslim world -- Securing the Middle East: from 'New' to 'Greater' Middle East -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion: futures of the Middle East -- Karl Deutsch and the security communities approach -- The constructivist turn in the study of security communities.

Evaluating the potential for a security community in the Middle East -- Reflections on the security community approach in light of Middle East dynamics -- If not a security community, then what? -- References -- Index.

In this new and fully revised edition Pinar Bilgin provides an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East analysing the significant developments that have taken place in the past years.

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