Regional Insecurity After the Arab Uprisings Narratives of Security and Threat [Hardcover]

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the impact of the Arab Uprisings on the relationship between constructions of (in)security, narratives of threat and patterns of socio-political change within the Middle East and North Africa region. It also offers insights into the study of regional security and the operation of threat perceptions.1. Introduction: Narratives of (in)Security and (in)Stability in the Middle East; Elizabeth Monier PART I: REGIONAL APPROACHES TO SECURITY: THE CASE OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 2. Region, Security, Regional Security: 'Whose Middle East?', Revisited; Pinar Bilgin 3. Regionalising Security in the Middle East: Connecting the Regional and the Global; Louise Fawcett 4. Sub-regions and Security in the Arab Middle East: Managing Interdependence and Isolationism; Marina Calculli PART II: IDENTITY AND THREAT PERCEPTIONS AS REGIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES 5. Perceiving Difference as Threat: US and Arab 'Othering' of Iran; Sybille Reinke de Buitrago 6. Whose Security Lens on Gender Matters in the Arab Uprisings?; Mariz Tadros 7. The Geopolitics of the Sunni-Shi'i Rift; Augustus Richard Norton 8. A Resurgence in Arab Regional Institutions? The Cases of the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council Post-2011; Sally Khalifa Isaac 9. The Season's Pendulum: Arab Spring Politics and Israeli Security; Tami Amanda Jacoby 10. Neighbourhood Narratives from 'zero problems with neighbours' to 'precious loneliness': Turkey's Re-securitized Middle East Policy after the Arab Spring; Bezen Balamir Co?kun 11. Islamism, International Security and Democratic Peace; Bassam Tibi

With 'blow back' from the 2011 Arab uprisings continuing, Dr Elizabeth Monier has identified authors with insightful knowledge of the developments, actors and trends involved. The result is a superb collection of chapters which will intrigue the serious student of Middle Eastern politics, while providing an invaluable contribution to any academic syllabus dealing witlG