Regional Security in the Middle East by Pinar Bilgin - 9781138701335

Taylor & Francis

Regional Security in the Middle EastA Critical Perspective\nAuthor(s): Pinar Bilgin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138701335, 978-1138701335\nSynopsis\nIn this new and fully revised edition Pinar Bilgin provides an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East, analysing the significant developments that have taken place in the past years. Drawing from a wide range of critical approaches to security, the book offers a comprehensive study of pasts, presents, and futures of security in the region.\n\nThe 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 .