Regional security in the Middle East: a critical perspective

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition -- Preface to the 2004 edition -- Introduction -- Thinking past the Middle East approach to regional security -- Arguing against Middle East exceptionalism -- Aims and organisation of the book -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Pasts -- 1. Cold War pasts of security thinking -- Cold War thinking on security -- Cold War critics of security thinking -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. Cold War representations of the Middle East -- 'Where is the Middle East?' -- The Middle East as a geopolitical invention -- The United States and Cold War Middle Easts -- Is there a Middle East? -- Writing the Middle East -- Not my Middle East! -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Practices of security during the Cold War -- Securing the Middle East -- Securing the Arab world -- A struggle for prevalence: the Arab Cold War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Presents -- 4. Post-Cold War presents of security thinking -- (Exposing) the politics of security -- Broadening security -- Referent(s) of security -- Agency -- Eurocentrism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. Post-Cold War representations of the Middle East -- The Arab world -- The Euro-Mediterranean -- The Muslim world -- From 'New' to 'Greater' Middle East -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Practices of security in the post-Cold War era -- Security in the Arab world -- Security in the Euro-Mediterranean -- Security in the Muslim world -- Securing the Middle East: from 'New' to 'Greater' Middle East -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion: futures of the Middle East -- Karl Deutsch and the security communities approach -- The constructivist turn in the study of security communities

Cold war pasts of security thinking -- Cold war representations of the Middle East -- Practices of security during the Cold War -- Post-cold war presents of security thinking -- Post-cold war representations of the Middle East -- Practices of security in the post-Cold War era -- Conclusion : futures of the Middle East.