Abstract
AbstractThis article presents a theoretical framework for a collection of articles (“special issue”), which aims at discussing the role of non-Arab state actors and non-state actors in a changing Middle East. The articles in the collection offer perspectives that have been overlooked in recent research, namely those focusing on the role of non-Arab state actors and non-state actors in connection with the changing security environment in the region. Furthermore, these articles discuss how changes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are appearing in different and shifting contexts in the creation of new local, sub-regional, or regional security subcomplexes in which Arab states, non-Arab states and non-state actors enter into new conflicts, alliances and other political relations with and against each other. The role of international actors interfering in the region is also analyzed in the context of the changing Middle East.
Highlights
The articles appearing in this special issue take up perspectives that to some degree have been overlooked in recent research, namely those focused on the role of nonArab state actors and non-state actors in connection with the changing security environment in the Middle East region
Where much of the research on the Arab uprisings in 2011 and onwards first of all have analysed the Arab states and their regional and international relations (Dalacoura, 2012; Sekkat, 2014; Al-Sumait et al, 2015; Brownlee et al, 2015; Butenschøn, 2015; Heydemann, 2016; Seeberg, 2016a), this collection of articles takes its point of departure in the role of non-Arab states and non-state actors during the years after the revolts
The articles discuss how changes in the Middle East region are appearing in different and shifting contexts in the creation of new local, sub-regional, or regional security complexes in which non-Arab states and non-state actors enter into new conflicts, alliances, and other political relations with and against each other
Summary
The articles appearing in this special issue take up perspectives that to some degree have been overlooked in recent research, namely those focused on the role of nonArab state actors and non-state actors in connection with the changing security environment in the Middle East region. The articles discuss the changing security environment in the Middle East region and analyses the role of Iran, Israel and Turkey as significant foreign policy and security actors in the Middle East.
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