Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction: A New Middle East? 1
5. PART 1: Continuity and Change in the Neoliberal State of the Middle East
6. 1 Is There a New Middle East? What Has Changed, and What Hasn’t? 23
7. 2 What Future for the Private Sector in the New Middle East? 40
8. 3 Education and Human Security: Centering the Politics of Human Dignity 58
9. 4 Myths of Middle- Class Political Behavior in the Islamic Republic 75
10. PART 2: Culture and Community in the New Middle East
11. 5 Poets of the Revolutions: Authoritarians, Uprisings, and Rappers in North Africa, 1990s– Present 91
12. 6 Islamism at a Crossroads? The Diffusion of Political Islam in the Arab World 106
13. 7 Islamists before and after 2011: Assuming, Overlooking, or Overthrowing the Administrative State? 123
14. 8 Homeland (Dis-)Engagement Processes among the New Syrian Diaspora 137
15. PART 3: Old States, New Dilemmas
16. 9 Saudi Arabia: How Much Change? 155
17. 10 Erdoğan, Turkish Foreign Policy, and the Middle East 170
18. 11 The Syrian Civil War and the New Middle East 185
19. 12 State Building, Sectarianization, and Neo- Patrimonialism in Iraq 201
20. PART 4: Global and Regional Dynamics of the New Middle East
21. 13 The Post- Uprising Transformation of International Relations in the Middle East and North Africa 221
22. 14 Proxy War and the New Structure of Middle East Regional Politics 238
23. 15 International Law, Use of Force, and the New Middle East 253
24. Afterword: The Fourth Dream 272
25. Notes 283
26. Index 335