A01=Imad Mansour
A01=William R. Thompson
Author_Imad Mansour
Author_William R. Thompson
Category=JPA
Category=JPS
conflict axis
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forthcoming
international relations
MENA
Middle East
political science
regional order
rivalry field
theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780755658763
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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'.
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.
