CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. THE Contributors viii
5. INTRODUCTION: Regional Order in the Middle East and North Africa 1
6. 1 Lost in Change: A Framework for Understanding Change in the Middle East Regional Order 32
7. 2 American Illusions of Regional Order and the Emergence of Turbulence in the MENA Regional System 62
8. 3 Which Region? Border Drawing and Ordering in the Middle East and North Africa 85
9. 4 Variable-Geometry Regionalisation: Overlapping Cartographies of Regime Survival across the Mediterranean MENA and the Red Sea 111
10. 5 Alliances and Regional Order in the Middle East 139
11. 6 Discursive Perceptions and Projections of Regional Order: The Islamic Republic of Iran and its Place in the Region 159
12. 7 Nomos and Normative Alternatives: Spatial Manifestations of the Resistance Axis’ Vision of Regional Order 190
13. 8 Capabilities and Confidence: Gulf Arab Autonomy amid America’s Altered Authority 219
14. 9 The Environmental Factor in the Middle East and North Africa: How Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Reshape Regional Order 243
15. Conclusion: Ordering and Disordering the Middle East 270
16. Index 288