Overview
- Offers a detailed analysis of the organizational, ideological, and strategic preferences of key new violent non-state actors in the Middle East
- Employs new analytical perspectives in understanding the radical transformation of the new Middle Eastern geopolitical and security space
- Analyzes the impact of violent non-state actors on the wider international society of states and international norms
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it provides new empirical and analytical insights into the impact of three prominent actors, namely ISIS, YPG and Shia Militias. With its distinctive detailed and multi-faceted analyses, it offers new findings on the changing contours of sovereignty, geopolitics and ideology, particularly after the Arab Uprisings. Overall this volume contributes to the study of violent geopolitics, critical security studies and international relations particularly by exploring the ideologies and strategies of the new non-state armed actors.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework
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The Ethno-Secular Geopolitical Space in the Middle East
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The Rise of Sacred Political Space in the Middle East
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New Methods in Old Bottles: The Strategy of Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East
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Reviews
“Non-state armed actors have shattered state territorial orders across the Middle East. This book examines the beliefs and strategies of these new territorial brokers and how they are re-making geopolitics, and bio-politics, from below across the region. It is compelling reading.” (Gerard Toal, Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA and author of Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest for Ukraine and the Caucasus)
“Murat Yeşiltaş and Tuncay Kardaş have produced an excellent analysis of the rise of non-state actors. Very few works have the same level of solid scholarship and deep, comparative insights into the phenomenon.” (Omar Ashour, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK and author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements)
“In tracing out both the ideological origins and political implications of their seemingly inexorable capacity to garner power following the so-called Arab Spring, this book makes an invaluable contribution to contemporary debates on sovereignty, social order and geo-politics. Up-to-date, well-written and relevant, it will be a key resource for anyone wishing to navigate their way through the complexities and dynamics of the contemporary Middle East.” (Tim Jacoby, Professor, University of Manchester, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Murat Yeşiltaş is Associate Professor in the Middle East Institute of Sakarya University, Turkey.
Tuncay Kardaş is Associate Professor in the Middle East Institute of Sakarya University, Turkey.
Tuncay Kardaş is Associate Professor in the Middle East Institute of Sakarya University, Turkey.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East
Book Subtitle: Geopolitics, Ideology, and Strategy
Editors: Murat Yeşiltaş, Tuncay Kardaş
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55287-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55286-6Published: 20 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85618-6Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55287-3Published: 06 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 278
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Terrorism and Political Violence, Middle Eastern Politics, Military and Defence Studies, Conflict Studies, Human Rights, International Organization