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Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia

Moving from the Periphery
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Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia: Moving from the Periphery provides fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Working out of diverse disciplinary traditions, the authors call on varied theoretical frameworks in order to challenge entrenched stereotypes and long-standing perspectives. This volume explores emerging directions in scholarship across a range of issues, including: the Gulf; Saudi strategizing; Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran; contemporary Turkish politics; the current Syrian conflict; Middle Eastern and Central Asian art; perceptions of security threats from Afghanistan; and the potential future role of China in the region. The authors in this volume have given wide-berth to dominant approaches to scholarship on the region, while grappling with overlooked issues and marginal populations in order to advance new frameworks. On the Periphery deserves a central place in future scholarly engagement with the Middle East and Central Asia.
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Alternative Frameworks: Accounting for the Overlooked, Katlyn Quenzer and Maria Syed Chapter One: Emerging Trends and Debates in Gulf Studies, Matthew Gray Chapter Two: Impending Decline? A Reassessment of Saudi Power, Maria Syed Chapter Three: Iranian Nationalism from its (Afghan) Margins, Elisabeth Yarbakhsh Chapter Four: Between (Ethno-)Nationalism and Political Islam: The Kurdish Movement as a "Third Way" in Turkey, William Gourlay Chapter Five: State Formation and Social Conflict in Syria: Causalities, Unintended Consequences, and Analytical Trajectories, Harout Akdedian Chapter Six: Seen from a Distance: Political Contexts for Middle Eastern Contemporary Art, Sam Bowker Chapter Seven: The Afghan Threat to the Security of the Central Asian Nations: Myth or Reality?, Azam Isabaev Chapter Eight: When East Looks West to the Middle East, Ian Nelson About the authors Index
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