The Middle East and Globalization discusses past and contemporary political, societal, economic, and cultural trends in the Middle East against the background of comprehensive theories of globalization. The chapters draw on a shared methodological approach, looking at the fractures and horizons of globalization that are shaping the Middle East.

1. The Middle East and Globalization: Encounters and Horizons; Stephan Stetter 2. Globalization, the Highest Stage of Imperialism: Core-periphery Dynamics in the Middle East; Raymond Hinnebusch 3. Globalization and Networked Civility in the Arab Region; Emma Murphy 4. Globalization and in/Security: Middle Eastern Encounters with International Society: The Case of Turkey; Pinar Bilgin 5. The Globalization of Democracy and the Location of the Middle East in the Contemporary Global Order; Andrea Teti 6. Globalization in a Middle Eastern Regional Perspective: A Postcolonial Reading of the Arab Human Development Reports; Mervat F. Hatem 7. Settler Colonialism and Its Discontents: A View Forward from the Long 1960s; John Collins 8. The Middle East, Interstate Norms, and Intervention: The Great Anomaly; Fred Halliday 9. Islamic Reform and the Global Public Sphere: Muhammad Abduh and Islamic Modernity; Dietrich Jung 10. The 'New Middle East' and the Encounter with the Global Condition: Exploring the Global/Regional Interplay from the Perspective of the New English School; Morten Valbjørn 11. Global Conflict Governance in the Middle East: World Society, Conflict Management in Lebanon, and the International Crisis Group; Mitra Moussa Nabo and Stephan Stetter 12. Globalization, Labor Migration, and Cities in Israel; Haim Yacobi 13. The Arab State, Identity, and Social Progress: Egypt, Globalization and the Challenges of Integrationl; Robert Bowker

"Stephan Stetter's edited volume on globalization and the Middle East is a roll call of the critical thinkers on the subject. In fourteen immensely rich chapters, the contributors dig deep into the body of the debates about globalization and present the reader with a feast of ideas and insights on this unique phenomenon. The volume deliberately widens the conceptual boundaries of debates about globalization and regions to include the critical, non-economic aspects of the process: ICTs, civil society, politics of identity, Islamic reform, the role of imperialism, and human development. This volume is unique and rich in method and argument - indeed at a time of great uncertainty in the Middle East this is the kind of sure footing one would need to try to begin and make sense of it all." - Anoush Ehteshami, Nasser Al-Sabah Professor of International Relations, Durham University, UK "Conceptually rigorous and historically rich, The Middle East and Globalization builds solid bridges between area studies and social science disciplines and contextualizes the study of the region in the era of globalization. Puncturing holes in the notion of Arab and Middle East exceptionalism, the contributors insist that socio-economic and socio-political structures and trends in the region can only be understood in their complexity if studied against the background of globalization, defined as a theoretical concept - an "integrated approach" - to which various social science disciplines contribute. Timely and critical, this volume throws further light on the 2011 large-scale Arab popular uprisings which have shaken the autocratic order to its very foundation and introduced a new language and era of contentious politics that challenges conventional ways of thinking about the region. A must-read for both area studies specialists and theorists." - Fawaz A. Gerges, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, UK