A New Regional Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa: Regional Security Complex Theory Revisited

Santini, Ruth Hanau

doi:10.1080/03932729.2017.1371487

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“…The heterarchic notion of multiple rankings of power relations is useful in the analysis of increasingly hybrid MENA political systems, where rather than weak statehood or multiple governance arrangements, war orders can be conceptualized as heterarchic orders of agencies of coercion whereby stateness is flexible (Leenders and Giustozzi, 2019) but also to regional orders (Hanau Santini, 2017; Hinnebusch, 2018). These applications to the MENA context have on the one hand deepened the previously under-developed IR application notion of heterarchy as a specific regional order premised neither on hierarchy nor anarchy.…”

Section: Traditional Security: Between Theoretical Reflection and Emp...mentioning

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Waiting for IR Godot? In search of transformative encounters between Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations

Costantini

Santini

2021

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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Within the Special Issue ‘Reaching for allies? The dialectics and overlaps between International Relations and Area Studies in the study of politics, security, and conflicts’, this article investigates the post-2011 changing relationship between International Relations (IR) and Middle Eastern Studies (MES). The article departs from the assumption that the reading and writing of security in, on and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has historically been trapped between the projection of security from abroad and endogenous security narratives. We argue that within the post-Arab uprisings renewed scholarly attention, with studies on security in, on and from the MENA region expressing an all-time methodological pluralism and the increasing and original application of bottom-up and non-military security understandings to regional security, societal and human security are among the most promising notions for transformative dialogue between IR and MES. In broader theoretical terms, we show how the ongoing debate on post-Weberian notions of statehood and post-Westphalian sovereignty point to an already transformative dialogue between IR and MES. The article illustrates this trend with two case studies – on Tunisia and on Iraq – pointing to changing security concepts reflecting changing security practices.

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Waiting for IR Godot? In search of transformative encounters between Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations

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Santini

2021

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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“…Bliskoistočna konfliktna formacija vođena je tradicionalnom agendom teritorijalnih sporova, ideološkim nadmetanjem, rivalstvima oko moći i statusa i etničkim i kulturnim podelama (Buzan and Waever 2003, 193-194). Uprkos kulturnoj, društvenoj i verskoj sličnosti i postojanju pregršt regionalnih organizacija, debata o statusu Bliskog istoka se često svodi na ocene da se radi o "regionu bez regionalizma" (Aarts 1999;Santini 2017). Upravo suprotno regionalizaciji, region Bliskog istoka se od procesa dekolonizacije nalazi u nekoj vrsti permanentnog regionalnog hladnog rata, ali sa državama regiona kao glavnim akterima, kada su popustile stege koje je nametnulo nadmetanje supersila.…”

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Regionalni bezbednosni kompleks Bliskog istoka

Jojić¹

2021

Regionalna Bezbednost

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“…There are three "security complexes" in the Middle East broadly. 17 One comprises Israel and the Arab-world (the Levant), another North Africa, and the third covers the Gulf region, a highly precarious sub-region where Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have been competing with each other for regional dominance (Hanau Santini, 2017). The Gulf security complex is inextricably linked with that of the larger Middle East given that the ambitions of the Saudi regime can hardly be isolated from similar concerns and interests in the wider Arab world.…”

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“Weak State” Security in the Middle East: A Historical Sociological Investigation

KÜÇÜK¹

2021

Ege Stratejik Araştırmalar Dergisi

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Weak state" security conception has come into being as a major contribution of Third World and Critical Security Studies. This conception has improved on the traditional one, but the same cannot be claimed for the conception of "weak state". Considering empirical, methodological and political controversies surrounding weak state security, this work does not assume it, but inquires instead into its origins and formation. It argues for historicising the "weak state" and contextualizing security issues thereof. To this end, this article explores "weak state" security through a historical sociological investigation of state formation inspired from Tilly's bellicist theory of state in the Middle Eastern context. Middle Eastern experience vindicates the idea that state formation and production of security is a spatiotemporally distinct process. The work concludes with a discussion of both drawbacks and promises of the bellicist theory of weak state in explaining the conception and practice of security in the region.

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A New Regional Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa: Regional Security Complex Theory Revisited

Cited by 32 publications

References 23 publications

Waiting for IR Godot? In search of transformative encounters between Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations

Waiting for IR Godot? In search of transformative encounters between Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations

Regionalni bezbednosni kompleks Bliskog istoka

“Weak State” Security in the Middle East: A Historical Sociological Investigation

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