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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/156914907X207667 PGDT 6 (2007) 13-53 www.brill.nl/pgdt Perspectives on Global Development and Technology P g d t Introduction Th eoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Greater Middle East Mehdi Parvizi Amineh Senior Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies and Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Webster University m.p.amineh@uva.nl Keywords Th e Greater Middle East, decline of Islamic empires, sequential industrialization, nation build- ing, failed or fragmented industrialization/modernization, chronic developmental crisis Th is combined special issue of PGDT brings together studies of the “Greater Middle East” (GME) in the colonial and post-colonial eras. Th is part of the world comprises (1) the countries of North Africa; (2) the countries of the Arab Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf states); (3) the non-Arab Middle Eastern countries of Iran, Turkey, and Israel; (4) the countries Afghanistan and Pakistan; and (5) the Central Eurasian countries (i.e., the five Central Asian republics and the three new states in the south Caucasus). Th e issue also contains two studies— conceptual and empirical—of the GME in global politics. As defined above, the GME is not based on religion. We define
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007
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