03696cam a2200361 a 4500 15250772 20081219100752.0 080407s2008 enk b 001 0 eng 2008015914 140399577X (alk. paper) 9781403995773 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)222250628 (OCoLC)ocn222250628 DLC DLC YDXCP BTCTA BAKER BWKUK BWK BWX CDX DLC aw----- JQ1758.A58 S74 2008 320.956 22 STE Stetter, Stephan, 1972- 8147 World society and the Middle East : Reconstructions in regional politics / Stephan Stetter. Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008. x, 239 p. ; 23 cm. Rethinking peace and conflict studies Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : globalization, world society and the study of the Middle East in international relations -- World society and the Middle East : introductory remarks -- Addressing globalization and the Middle East -- Theories of globalization and world society -- A world society perspective on the Middle East -- Outline of the book -- Regionalization and debordering : the Middle East between global interconnectivity and functional differentiation -- Relocating the Middle East -- Debordering the Middle East -- Bordering Palestine -- Jerusalem as a world city -- Rebordering the Middle East -- The creeping antagonization of Middle East politics -- Power and contestations : crossings the lines between power and powerlessness in the Middle East -- Mystifications of power in the Middle East -- Readdressing cycles of power and powerlessness -- Frozen crossings : the naked visibility of power in Middle East politics -- The inflationary symbolization of power in the Middle East -- The centrality of violence in the Middle East reconsidered -- Hot contestations : paradoxes of power and powerlessness -- Inclusion and exclusion : fragile strategies of deparadoxification in the Middle East -- Inclusion and exclusion in Middle East politics -- Inclusion/exclusion and the creeping antagonization of Middle East politics -- Another Middle East mosaic : extended frozen crossings and chain exclusions -- Re-reading the 'crisis' of education in the Middle East -- Women, men and the Middle East -- World society and the polycontextuality of inclusion/exclusion -- Rethinking conflicts and peace in the Middle East -- Identities and conflicts : the 'deep perturbation' of Middle East politics -- Constructions and all that : identities and conflicts in the Middle East -- Antagonized identities, 'deep perturbations' and conflict systems -- Revisiting identities and conflicts in Middle East politics -- The institutionalization of antagonisms in Middle East politics -- Identity as the ideological battleground of Middle East conflicts -- World society and Middle East conflicts -- Beyond Orientalization and civilization : concluding remarks -- Whither peace in the Middle East? Interregionalism Middle East. 8148 Group identity Middle East. 8149 Politics and war Middle East. 8150 Globalization Middle East. 8151 Middle East Politics and government. 8152 ddc BB 12428 12428 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2009-07-27 purchase 375.00 8324 2 1 320.956 STE 000017586 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2019-03-03 BB