Offers a novel cross-disciplinary theoretical perspective on conflict and conflict transformation in world society, and integrates the study of conflicts in the Middle East region into a modern systems theoretical framework.

Autorentext
Stephan Stetter is International Politics and Conflict Studies chair at Universität der Bundeswehr München.

Inhalt
PART I: WORLD SOCIETY AND THE MIDDLE EAST Introduction: Globalization, World Society and the Study of the Middle East in IR Regionalization and Debordering: The Middle East between Global Interconnectivity and Functional Differentiation PART II: THE CREEPING ANTAGONIZATION OF MIDDLE EAST POLITICS Power and Contestations: Crossings the Lines between Power and Powerlessness in the Middle East Inclusion and Exclusion: Fragile Strategies of Deparadoxification in the Middle East PART III: RETHINKING CONFLICTS AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Identities and Conflicts: The 'Deep Perturbation' of Middle East politics Beyond Orientalisation and Civilization: Concluding Remarks