International Relations of the Middle East

Professor Louise Fawcett is Professor of International Relations and Wilfrid Knapp Fellow and Tutor in Politics, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, 1995 - present. Her research focuses on comparative regional integration studies and the international relations of developing countries, notably the Middle East. Professor Fawcett is a member of the editorial board of the UK journal International Affairs.She chairs the International Advisory Board of the UN Centre for Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Belgium; she also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg. In 2020 she was elected to Belgian Royal Academy (Académie Royale de Belgique) as an Associate Member of the Class of Letters and Moral and Political Sciences.

• Louise Fawcett: Introduction: The Middle East and International Relations Part One: Theoretical and Historical Overview 1: Fred H. Lawson: International Relations Theory and the Middle East 2: Eugene L. Rogan: The Emergence of the Middle East into the Modern State System 3: Louise Fawcett : The Cold War in the Middle East 4: Bahgat Korany: The Middle East since the Cold War Part Two: Themes in International Relations and International Political Economy 5: Giacomo Luciani: Oil and Political Economy in the International Relations of the Middle East 6: Raymond Hinnebusch: The Politics of Identity in Middle East International Relations 7: Peter Mandaville: Islam and International Relations in the Middle East 8: Louise Fawcett: Alliances and Regionalism in the Middle East 9: P)inar Bilgin: Security in the Middle East: Whose security? Part Three: Key Issues and Actors 10: Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami: Foreign Policymaking in the Middle East: Complex Realism 11: Charles Smith: The Arab-Israeli Conflict 12: Matteo Legrenzi: The International Politics of the Gulf 13: Larbi Sadiki: The Arab Spring: The 'People' in International Relations 14: Michael C. Hudson and Andrew Payne: The United States in the Middle East 15: Roland Dannreuther: Russia, China, and the Middle East 16: Raffaella A. Del Sarto: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East