Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective, Edition 2
About this ebook
The book distinguishes itself from previous (critical) studies on regional security by opening up both ‘region’ and ‘security’. Different from those approaches that bracket one or the other, this study takes seriously the constitutive relationship between (inventing) regions, and (conceptions and practices of) security. There is not one Middle East but many, shaped by the insecurities of those who voice them. This book focuses on how present-day insecurities have their roots in practices that have, throughout history, been shaped by ‘geopolitical inventions of security’. In doing so, the book lays the contours of a framework for thinking critically about regional security in this part of the world.
This second edition of Regional Security in the Middle East is a key resource for students and scholars interested in International Relations and Political Science, Security Studies, and Middle East Studies.
About the author
Pinar Bilgin is Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara. She is the author of The International in Security, Security in the International and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology and Asia in International Relations: Unlearning Imperial Power Relations.
