Dr Philipp O. Amour is excited to announce that his latest book on the Middle East is in production by USA: Palgrave MacMillan, to appear in 2020.
The book entitled “The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East. Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances” contains 14 chapters that are divided into three major parts:
- Part I: Security alliance in the Gulf Region and the Middle East includes chapters on the KSA-led security alliance; Iran-led security alliance; and Turkey-led security alliance.
- Part II: State actors and non-state militant actors includes chapters that exemplify the ways in which specific state-actors as well as non-state actors (e.g., PMF, PYD, and the Islamic State) project specific patterns of political and ideational processes outward from their national boarders in form of engagement, rivalry, or alienation.
- Part III covers specific external factors (e.g., Russia, ecology, and energy), illustrating their role in regional dynamics.
The book ends with a chapter (“Regional rivalries and security alliances in the Gulf Region and the Middle East“) reflecting on the regional system in retrospect and prospect.
The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances
This book (The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances) examines the regional order in the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East, focusing on regional rivalries and security alliances. The authors analyze the regional system in terms of its general structure as well as the major inter-state and non-state security alliances. The structure of the regional system in the wider Middle East and the shake-ups it has experienced explain the ongoing regional rivalry and polarization since 2011 in hotspots such as Syria, Yemen, and Libya. As such, the various chapters address regional transition and power dynamics between and among regional great powers and non-state militant actors across the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East in terms of the alliance building, persistence, and disintegration since 2011.
Download high-resolution cover from publisher's site. Bibliographic information:- Book title: The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East
- Book subtitle: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45464-7
- eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45465-4
- DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45465-4
- Release date: August 2020
- Edition number: 1
- Trim size:
- Pages: XXI, 510
- Palgrave MacMillan (USA)
- Order here
Edited by Philipp O. Amour, an Associate Professor of International Relations at Sakarya University and a frequent Visiting Professor at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. He has published scholarly articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies as well as book chapters with leading publishers.
See further information from publisher's site.- Gulf Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Middle Eastern Politics
- Axis of Resistance
- Conservative-resistance bloc
- Resistance bloc
- Conservative-moderate bloc
- Sunni Axis
- Islamic bloc
- Political Islam
- International Relations
- Regional order
- Alliances
- Security
- Foreign policy
- Ecological factors and the Regional order
- Water
- Energy
- Natural resources
- Environment
- Middle East
- Gulf Region
- North Africa
- Horn of Africa
- Egypt
- Iran
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- USA
- Russia
- Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH)
- Hamas
- Hezbollah
- Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)
- Kata’ib Hezbollah in Iraq (KH)
- Syria’s Democratic Union Party (PYD)
- The Houthi movement
- The Islamic State
- The Muslim Brotherhood
“This book presents original and detailed insights into the relations between the dominant states of the Middle East. It elucidates the complex and dynamic competition between four region-wide actors: the alliance between Turkey-Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and its non-state Islamist clients, the anti-Islamist bloc of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, and finally Israel, the only regional superpower.”— Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
“This volume contains rigorously researched and thematically rich contributions that advance our understanding of the regional rivalries and security alliances that have reshaped the regional order in the Middle East since 2011, and is a resource that will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners seeking to place the Middle East in comparative and analytical context.”— Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is Fellow for the Middle East, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
“This book brings together a wide range of international contributors to look at the Arab Gulf region in the context of the broader Middle East from a variety of perspectives. The volume’s focus on systemic, regional ways of understanding the Gulf states is a refreshing and helpful way of understanding contemporary Arab regional dynamics.”— David Mednicoff, Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, UMass-Amherst
