Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security

Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security provides the first comprehensive look at Middle East security issues that includes both traditional and emerging security threats.

Taking a broad perspective on security, the volume offers both analysis grounded in the ‘hard’ military and state security discourse but also delves into the ‘soft’ aspects of security employing a human security perspective. As such the volume addresses imminent challenges to security, such as the ones relating directly to the war in Syria, but also the long-term challenges. The traditional security problems, which are deep-seated, are at risk of being exacerbated also by a lack of focus on emerging vulnerabilities in the region. While taking as a point of departure the prevalent security discourse, the volume also goes beyond the traditional focus on military or state security and consider non-traditional security challenges.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of research on the key challenges for security in the Middle East; it will be a key resource for students and scholars interested in Security Studies, International Relations, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies.

Anders Jägerskog (PhD) is Senior Water Resources Management Specialist at the Global Water Practice at the World Bank. His work focuses mainly on the Middle East and North Africa region. He is also Associate Professor (Docent) in Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is frequently consulted in national and international media on global water, conflict and security issues in the Africa and MENA region.

Michael Schulz (PhD) is Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published over 100 scientific articles, book chapters, debate articles and reports, and in particular extensively on issues in the Middle East and North Africa region, dealing with security, civil resistance, democracy and state building, conflicts, and regionalism.

Ashok Swain is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, UNESCO Chair of International Water Cooperation, and the Director of the Research School of International Water Cooperation at Uppsala University, Sweden. He received his PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1991, and since then he has been teaching at Uppsala University. He has written extensively on new security challenges, water sharing issues, environment, conflict and peace, and democratic development issues.