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Book SynopsisIn this edited book, several leading scholars address a number of security-related issues, all connected to one main research question: What (in)security means from the perspective of people living in the Middle East and North Africa? In doing so, the contributors shed light on the contours of a stable and legitimate order that responds to the needs of the peoples in the region, on what history tells us about the ongoing debates on security and stability in the region, and, last but not least, on «human security», which encompasses the dimension of human rights, political rights and social/economic security.
Table of ContentsFrom Sectarianization to De-Sectarianization: How to Advance Human Security in the Middle East – Selective Arms Flows and Arms Control: Producing Insecurity in the Middle East … and Beyond – Insecurity, Order and Pluralism in the Middle East: An Agenda for a Critical Approach to Security Studies – Beyond Security and Stability – Contra-Identity: Psycho-Nationalism After the ‹Middle East› – Islamists and the Arab Counter-Revolutions – Dahlan vs Belhaj: The Maghreb in the Arab War of Narratives – Dialogues in New Middle Eastern Politics: On (the Limits of) Making Historical Analogies to the Classic Arab Cold War in a Sectarianized New Middle East – Whose Stability? Assessing the ‘Iranian Threat’ through History
