1. The Middle East and Globalization: Encounters and Horizons; Stephan Stetter 2. Globalization, the Highest Stage of Imperialism: Core-periphery Dynamics in the Middle East; Raymond Hinnebusch 3. Globalization and Networked Civility in the Arab Region; Emma Murphy 4. Globalization and in/Security: Middle Eastern Encounters with International Society: The Case of Turkey; Pinar Bilgin 5. The Globalization of Democracy and the Location of the Middle East in the Contemporary Global Order; Andrea Teti 6. Globalization in a Middle Eastern Regional Perspective: A Postcolonial Reading of the Arab Human Development Reports; Mervat F. Hatem 7. Settler Colonialism and Its Discontents: A View Forward from the Long 1960s; John Collins 8. The Middle East, Interstate Norms, and Intervention: The Great Anomaly; Fred Halliday 9. Islamic Reform and the Global Public Sphere: Muhammad Abduh and Islamic Modernity; Dietrich Jung 10. The 'New Middle East' and the Encounter with the Global Condition: Exploring the Global/Regional Interplay from the Perspective of the New English School; Morten Valbjørn 11. Global Conflict Governance in the Middle East: World Society, Conflict Management in Lebanon, and the International Crisis Group; Mitra Moussa Nabo and Stephan Stetter 12. Globalization, Labor Migration, and Cities in Israel; Haim Yacobi 13. The Arab State, Identity, and Social Progress: Egypt, Globalization and the Challenges of Integrationl; Robert Bowker