Insecurity Communities of South Asia and the Middle East: Consequences of US Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9780367543181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 286 str.

Majid Sharifi

Opis

This book critically examines how US foreign policy has produced a regional regime of instability and insecurity in South Asia and the Middle East. 

Spis treści

Part I: The Making of Insecurity Communities  1. Introduction  2. Conceptualizing Insecurity as a Regional Phenomenon   Part II: Insecurity Communities of Afghanistan and Pakistan  3. Afghanistan and Pakistan as Regional Insecurity Communities  4. Rise and Fall of the Taliban 5. 2001 Regime Change in Afghanistan  Part III: Insecurity Communities of the Persian Gulf  6. A Brief History of US-led State-Building in the Persian Gulf Region  7. Shifting Alliances in the Persian Gulf  8. Consequences of the First Gulf War  9 US–Iran Relations Post-9/11  Part IV: Insecurity Communities of Iraq and Syria  10. The Rise of Iraq’s Ba’ath Party  11.Consequences of the 2003 Regime Change in Iraq  12. Fragmentation of Iraq  13. Conclusion

O autorze

Majid Sharifi is Professor of Political Science and the Director of International Affairs Program at Eastern Washington University, USA. He is the author of Imagining Iran: The Tragedy of Subaltern Nationalism (2013). His book breaks new ground in connecting what he calls subaltern nationalism to the imperial nature of global governance. His research explores the intersection between security and violence on the one hand, and social movements on the other. As a postcolonial scholar, he has written on decolonizing humanism, an idea drawn from Frantz Fanon’s writings. His current research focuses on consequences of US foreign policy in the making of the insecurity communities of South Asia and the Middle East.