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      Whose ‘Middle East’? Geopolitical inventions and practices of security

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      Author(s)
      Bilgin, P.
      Date
      2004
      Source Title
      International Relations
      Print ISSN
      0047-1178
      Publisher
      Sage Publications Ltd.
      Volume
      18
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      25 - 41
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Contesting those approaches that present the ‘Middle East’ as a region that ‘best fits the realist view of international politics’, this article submits that critical approaches are relevant to this part of the world as well. It is argued that instead of taking the relatively little evidence of enthusiasm for addressing the problem of regional insecurity in the Middle East for granted, a critical place for such approaches to begin is a recognition of the presence of a multitude of contending perspectives on regional security each one of which derives from different conceptions of security that have their roots in alternative worldviews. When rethinking regional security from a Critical Security Studies perspective, both the concepts ‘region’ and ‘security’ need to be opened up to reveal the mutually constitutive relationship between (inventing) regions and (conceptions and practices of) security.
      Keywords
      Arab national security
      Critical security studies
      Mediterranean security
      Middle East
      Muslim Middle East
      Regional security
      Security community
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/49049
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117804041739
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