Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia : Moving from the Periphery.

Cover -- Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia -- Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia: Moving from the Periphery -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Alternative Frameworks Accounting for the Overlooked -- Chapter 1 -- Emerging Trends and Debates in Gulf Studies -- A "Gulf Moment" in Middle Eastern Studies? -- The State of the Gulf Literature -- What Is Changing (and Not Changing) in the Gulf? -- Gaps in Gulf Studies -- In Lieu of a Conclusion: Some Likely Trends in Gulf Studies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 -- Impending Decline? -- Power as Resources -- Power as Influence -- Power as National Performance -- Countermeasures by Saudi Arabia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 -- Iranian Nationalism from its (Afghan) Margins -- Finding the Margins -- Narratives of Nationhood -- Crossing Borders -- An Open Door -- An Afghan-free Zone? -- Iran's Afghan Margins -- A Marginal Approach -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 -- Between (Ethno-)Nationalism and Political Islam -- Nation-building, Kemalism, and the Place of Ethnicity -- Examining the Compatibility of Islam and Modernity -- Inclusion-or Exclusion-and its Impacts -- Inclusion and Exclusion in post-1990 Turkey -- Kurdish Political Parties: Beyond Nationalism and Islam -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 -- State Formation and Social Conflict in Syria -- Explanatory Narratives of Social Conflict in Syria -- State Formation Theory -- State Atrophy and the Place of Locality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 -- Seen from a Distance -- What was "Islamic Art"? -- Indigenous Australian Analogies -- The Influence of Individuals and Institutions -- Case Studies in Contemporary Art -- Contemporary Art and Conflict -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7.

The Afghan Threat to the Security of the Central Asian Nations -- The Official Central Asian Discourse on Afghanistan: Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- The Official Western Discourse -- Western Scholarly Discourse on Central Asia-Afghanistan -- From "Locus of Dangers" to "Locus of Charlatans" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 -- When East Looks West to the Middle East -- Shall the Twain Meet? -- Scholarly Reflections and Representations -- A Shared History of Colonization -- China and the West in the Middle Eastern Theater -- An American Offer Beijing Could Hardly Refuse -- Beijing's Foreign Policy-Domestic Agenda Conundrum -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Contributors.

In this book scholars specializing in the Middle East and Central Asia provide fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Authors draw on multiple disciplinary traditions and cover a broad geography, in order to challenge understandings and propose new forms of scholarly engagement.

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