Stephan Stetter

Klaus Schlichte

Imperialism and the Presence of the Past

The Historicity of International Politics

Dietrich Jung

This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation. It addresses a theoretical void in global studies by attending to the co-constituted process through which modern subjectivities and global processes emerge and interact. The editors outline a key problem in global studies, which is a lack of engagement between the local/particular/individual and the ‘universalising’ processes in which they are situated. The volume deals with this concern with contributions from historical sociologists, poststructuralist and postcolonial scholars and by focusing in the Middle East, religion in global modernity and non-human subjectivities.

Global Structures and Local Practices

Modern Subjectivities in World Society

Mitra Moussa Nabo

Drawing from theories of world society and from historical-sociological theories the book studies the past, present, and future of Middle East Christianity. It focuses on the interplay between local practices and post-colonial entanglements in global modernity. The chapters of this book engage, inspired by these theories, key empirical dynamics that affect Middle East Christianity. This includes a historical overview on the history of Christians in the region, the relationship between Islam and Christianity, as well as case studies on the Maronites in Lebanon, Egypt’s Copts, the role of Protestant missionaries in the 19th century, processes of individualization amongst Middle East Christians, as well as papal diplomacy in the region.

Local Practices, World Societal Entanglements

Middle East Christianity

Martin Beck

Cilja Harders

Annette Jünemann

Dieser Band befasst sich mit den derzeit beobachtbaren tiefgreifenden sozialen, ökonomischen und politischen Transformationen in der arabischen Welt, die jedoch auf der Ebene der politischen Systeme von Stagnation und Autoritarismus gekennzeichnet sind. Ziel der Beiträge ist es, innovative theoretische Ansätze aus den Politik- bzw. den Sozialwissenschaften mit konkreter empirischer Forschung zu außenpolitischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftspolitischen Entwicklungen in der Region zu verknüpfen. Drei Faktoren spielen dabei eine zentrale Rolle: innergesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse, externe Einflussnahmen (insbesondere Demokratieförderung) und die Rolle von ökonomischen und politischen Renten. Das Buch erscheint als Band 1 der Reihe „Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens“.

Zwischen Transformation und Autoritarismus

Der Nahe Osten im Umbruch

Stephan Stetter

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