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The Middle East and Globalization discusses past and contemporary political, societal, economic, and cultural trends in the Middle East against the background of comprehensive theories of globalization. The chapters draw on a shared methodological approach, looking at the fractures and horizons of globalization that are shaping the Middle East

Offers a novel cross-disciplinary theoretical perspective on conflict and conflict transformation in world society, and integrates the study of conflicts in the Middle East region into a modern systems theoretical framework. Stephan Stetter is International Politics and Conflict Studies chair at Universität der Bundeswehr München.

This book draws on modern systems theory, as developed by Niklas Luhmann, to provide a new perspective to understand territorial conflicts.

This book offers an innovative theoretical and empirical analysis of integration in EU foreign and interior policies across the three pillars, from the Maastricht Treaty to the Treaty of Nice. The establishment of the three pillar structure with the Maastricht Treaty has been one of the key transformations of European governance. This divided EU policies into three main areas: European Community, Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) and for the first time the two sovereignty related areas of foreign and interior policies became part of the forma.

Un enfoque histórico-sociológico de las relaciones internacionales destaca, en particular, la importancia fundamental de las estructuras y las prácticas de las dinámicas de campos imperiales y poscoloniales en la forma en que funciona la política internacional, tanto históri-camente como en la actualidad. En pocas palabras: el colonialismo y el imperialismo no son simplemente una de las muchas dimen-siones de la política internacional, sino su núcleo estructural. Y un enfoque histórico-sociológico es capaz de concebir estas dinámicas en términos teóricos que superan las deficiencias de las teorías tra-dicionales de la disciplina en este respecto. ; A historical-sociological approach to international relations highlights, in particular, the fundamental importance of the structures and practices of imperial and postcolonial field dynamics in the way international politics works, both historically and today. In short: colonialism and imperialism are not simply one of the many dimensions of international politics, but its structural core. And a historical-sociological approach is capable of conceiving these dynamics in theoretical terms that overcome the deficiencies of the traditional theories of the discipline in this regard.