World Society and the Middle East

This book ffers a novel cross-disciplinary theoretical perspective on conflict and conflict transformation in world society, and integrates the study of conflicts in the Middle East region into a modern systems theoretical framework.PART I: WORLD SOCIETY AND THE MIDDLE EASTIntroduction: Globalization, World Society and the Study of the Middle East in IR Regionalization and Debordering: The Middle East between Global Interconnectivity and Functional DifferentiationPART II: THE CREEPING ANTAGONIZATION OF MIDDLE EAST POLITICS Power and Contestations: Crossings the Lines between Power and Powerlessness in the Middle East Inclusion and Exclusion: Fragile Strategies of Deparadoxification in the Middle East PART III: RETHINKING CONFLICTS AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Identities and Conflicts: The ?Deep Perturbation? of Middle East politics Beyond Orientalisation and Civilization: Concluding Remarks