1st Edition

Geopolitics of the New Middle East Perspectives from Inside and Outside

Edited By Şaban Kardaş, Bülent Aras Copyright 2024
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

This edited book takes a critical look at the geopolitics of the broader Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It scrutinizes some of the perennial issues shaping the regional security agenda, as well as the emerging geopolitical trends in the wake of a decade of turmoil triggered by the demands for political and economic reforms. The contributors explore the geopolitical implications of... Read more

Introduction—Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside

Bülent Aras and Şaban Kardaş

1. Europe and the ‘New’ Middle East: Geopolitical Shifts and Strategic Choices

Silvia Colombo and Eduard Soler i Lecha

2. Russia and the New Middle East

Leonid Issaev

3. China and New Middle East

Bingbing Wu

4. Iran and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East: In Search of Equilibrium

Hassan Ahmadian

5. The Second Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Change or Continuity?

Mahjoob Zweiri and Aljohara AlObaidan

6. Revisionism and Resecuritization of Turkey's Middle East Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation

Şaban Kardaş

7. The Unbridgeable Gulf: Applying Bennett’s Model of Analysis to the 2017 Gulf Crisis

Majed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ansari

8. Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance

Bülent Aras and Lacin Idil Oztig

Biography

Şaban Kardaş is Research Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, currently on leave from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at TOBB ETU.

Bülent Aras is Adjunct Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, Research Director at Center for International Policy Research.