Introduction : a new Middle East? / James L. Gelvin -- Is there a new Middle East? : what has changed; what hasn't? / Joel Beinin -- What future for the private sector in the new Middle East? / Ishac Diwan -- Education and human security : centering the politics of human dignity / Laurie Brand -- Myths of middle-class political behavior in the Islamic Republic / Kevan Harris -- Poets of the revolutions : authoritarians, uprisings, and rappers in North Africa, 1990s-present / Aomar Boum -- Islamism at a crossroads? : the diffusion of political Islam in the Arab world / Peter Mandaville -- Islamists before and after 2011 : assuming, overlooking, or overthrowing the administrative state? / Nathan J. Brown -- Homeland (dis-)engagement processes among the new Syrian diaspora / Lindsay A. Gifford -- Saudi Arabia : how much change? / F. Gregory Gause, III -- Erdogan, Turkish foreign policy, and the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey -- The Syrian civil war and the new Middle East / James L. Gelvin -- State-building, sectarianization, and neo-patrimonialism in Iraq / Harith Hasan -- The post-uprising transformation of international relations in the Middle East and North Africa / Fred H. Lawson -- Proxy war and the new structure of Middle East regional politics / Marc Lynch -- International law, the use of force, and the "new Middle East" / Asl♯ł U. Bali -- Afterword : the fourth dream / Moncef Marzouki.
Summary:
"This interdisciplinary collection of essays by experts in academia and elsewhere explores the social, cultural, political, and economic, state of the Middle East since the American invasion and occupation of Iraq and the Arab uprisings of 2010-2011. Topics include the new shape of political Islam, the Middle East as a crucible for international legal precedent, human security, the role of North African hip hop in defining and mobilizing a generation of activists, the effects of the region wide failure of neo-liberalism and globalization, regional politics in a post-American world, proxy wars and the new security framework, and to individual country studies (Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Saudi Arabia). The volume ends with an afterword by Moncef Marzouki, the first president of post-uprising Tunisia"-- Provided by publisher.
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