Overview

At a time of widespread instability in the Middle East, this book reflects on the construction and contestation of order across the region. Combining conceptual reflections with contemporary empirical analysis, the book offers a timely account of how competing visions of order play out and shape the Middle East. The book seeks to offer a discussion of the concept of order that is grounded in International Relations approaches but applied to the Middle East using a range of important case studies. Bringing together established scholars and exciting new voices, this collection is essential reading in understanding the shifting contours of the Middle East.

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Author:   Marc Lynch (Professor of Political Science, George Washington University) ,  Simon Mabon (Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399542975

ISBN 10:   1399542974
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Regional Order in the Middle East and North Africa Marc Lynch and Simon Mabon 1. Lost in Change: A Framework for Understanding Change in the Middle East Regional Order Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Helle Malmvig and Eduard Soler i Lecha 2. American Illusions of Regional Order and the Emergence of Turbulence in the MENA Regional System Waleed Hazbun 3. Which Region? Border Drawing and Ordering in the Middle East and North Africa Silvia Colombo and Eduard Soler i Lecha 4. Variable-Geometry Regionalisation: Overlapping Cartographies of Regime Survival across the Mediterranean MENA and the Red Sea Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal and Victoria Silva Sánchez 5. Alliances and Regional Order in the Middle East Curtis Ryan 6. Discursive Perceptions and Projections of Regional Order: The Islamic Republic of Iran and Its Place in the Region Olivia Glombitza 7. Nomos and Normative Alternatives: Spatial Manifestations of the Resistance Axis’ Vision of Regional Order Edward Wastnidge and Simon Mabon 8. Capabilities and Confidence: Gulf Arab Autonomy amid America’s Altered Authority Tyler Parker 9. The Environmental Factor in the Middle East and North Africa: How Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Reshape Regional Order Tobias Zumbraegel Conclusion: Ordering and Disordering the Middle East Simon Mabon and Marc Lynch Index

Reviews

The book fills an important gap in the existing literature and constitutes as an important and unique contribution. I will without doubt recommend this volume to my own library and I expect that it will also be reference work among scholars. As the volume covers a range of theoretical approaches to and empirical topics concerning regional order, it will also be useful in classes on Middle East politics and/or international relations/IR theory.--Morten Valbjørn, Aarhus University This volume is a powerful theoretical intervention in the study of MEIR. It is unique in the breadth of perspectives it gathers, and the diversity of its methodological contributions.--Bassel F. Salloukh, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Author Information

Marc Lynch is Professor of Political Science at The George Washington University, where he directs its Middle East Studies Program as well as the Project on Middle East Political Science and the Program on African Social Research. His recent books include The Political Science of the Middle East (Oxford University Press), Making Sense of the Arab State (University of Michigan Press), and The New Arab Wars (Public Affairs). Simon Mabon is Professor in International Politics at Lancaster University where he directs SEPAD. He is the other of a number of books and articles on the Middle East including The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Houses built on sand (Manchester University Press).

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