Why Regional Orders Do Not Transform
A Century of Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Will be published approx. on 23. July 2026
256 pages
978-0-7556-5879-4 (ISBN)
Description
MENA regional order has changed over the last century. However, there has been little structural transformation so existing rules and systems have not been altered. This book examines why despite so much change in the MENA - in the form of wars, economic decline and revival as well as massive societal uprisings - the regional order has not really moved beyond a conflict zone classification. Covering one hundred years from 1922 (the date of the partition of the Ottoman Empire) to 2022, the authors forward an analytical framework and suggest three phases in the regional order and what factors might move the MENA into another categorical order. The analysis offers important theoretical contributions on how dynamism and stasis in regional orders interact and the book offers a new understanding of the concepts of 'rivalry field' and 'conflict axis'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
File size
3,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7556-5879-4 (9780755658794)
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Imad Mansour | William R. Thompson
Why Regional Orders Do Not Transform
A Century of Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Book
approx. 08/2026
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€116.50
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Persons
Imad Mansouris Assistant Professor for the Critical Security Studies Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. He is also Non-Resident Research Associate with the Global Institute for Strategic Research, Qatar.
William R. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Indiana University, US. He is Former Editor-in-chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, and Affiliated Professor at the University of Washington, US.
William R. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Indiana University, US. He is Former Editor-in-chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, and Affiliated Professor at the University of Washington, US.
Content
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Studying Regional Orders
Chapter Three: Identifying the Middle East and North Africa
Chapter Four: A Framework to Explain Regional Order Change and Transformation
Chapter Five: Political Economy Influences on the Regional Order
Chapter Six: Regional Distribution of Capabilities and Ideational Competition
Chapter Seven: Interventions by Great Powers
Chapter Eight: Conflict Axis and Rivalry Field: Conduits Between Drivers and Regional Order
Chapter Nine: Conclusion
Chapter Two: Studying Regional Orders
Chapter Three: Identifying the Middle East and North Africa
Chapter Four: A Framework to Explain Regional Order Change and Transformation
Chapter Five: Political Economy Influences on the Regional Order
Chapter Six: Regional Distribution of Capabilities and Ideational Competition
Chapter Seven: Interventions by Great Powers
Chapter Eight: Conflict Axis and Rivalry Field: Conduits Between Drivers and Regional Order
Chapter Nine: Conclusion
