Ewan Stein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ewan Stein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ewan |
| FAMILY NAME | Stein |
| SIGNATURE | STEIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Egyptian responses to Turkey’s Mena policy from the Arab spring to the Gaza crisis
This paper unpacks the nature and drivers of Egypt’s relations with Turkey from 2011 until 2024. I conceptualise both states as ‘sub-imperialist’ powers that while remaining dependent upon the West enjoy relative autonomy to influence their regional environment. The paper analyses Egyptian responses to Turkish attempts to shape the Egyptian and other regional political systems, assume a leading role in mediating the conflict in Israel–Palestine, …
International Relations in the Middle East
Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores domestic and international foreign policy dynamics for an accessible insight into how and why Middle Eastern regional order has changed over time. Highlighting interactions between foreign policy trajectories in a range of states including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria an…
Ideological Codependency and Regional Order
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Islamists and Liberal Values in the Middle East
A new book's argument that Islam is exceptional, with an inbuilt resistance to democracy, sounds to our reviewer like an echo of an earlier era's Orientalist assumptions
Twenty-First Century Jihad
The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religious and political concepts, jihad has multiple resonances and associations, its meaning shifting over time and from place to place. Jihad has referred to movements of internal reform, spiritual struggle and self-defence as much as to 'holy war'. And among Muslim intellectuals, the meaning and significa…
Islamism and the state after the Arab uprisings
The authors would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council for facilitating the research for this article through their support of the research network People Power versus State Power of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
Intellectuals and Political Change in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
This article introduces the special issue on Intellectual dynamics in the modern Middle East. It discusses key themes of the contributions, including intellectuals as social and political actors, intellectuals, power and the state, and history, tradition and regional temporality. Notes1 Earlier versions of the majority of these articles were presented in two workshops on intellectuals in the Middle East organised by the British Society for Middle…
Studying Islamism after the Arab Spring
This intervention argues that the events associated with the ‘Arab Spring’, particularly in Egypt, raise important questions for the study of political Islam as a discrete phenomenon or uniquely resonant set of ideas in Muslim societies. It stresses the need for a better understanding of how specific groups utilize Islamist ideas in reshaping the collective imagination over time, and how these processes in turn affect the popularity, strategies a…
Representing Israel in Modern Egypt
From the heady days of Nasser’s Arab nationalism to the cold peace of the Mubarak era, the idea and reality of Israel has occupied a central position in Egyptian politics, both domestic and foreign. Ewan Stein seeks to explain and historicise the fragile state of ‘no war, no peace’ that followed the 1979 Camp David Accords, examining the way in which domestic factors interact with global and regional shifts to shape attitudes to Israel in the Ara…
Beyond Arabism vs. sovereignty
This article critiques constructivist approaches to the international relations of the Middle East and sets out an alternative interpretation of the role of ideas based on political economy and the sociology of knowledge. It cautions against using constructivism as a way of ‘building bridges’ between IR and Middle East Studies and disputes the claim that the norms of ‘Arabism’ as a putative regional identity are in contradiction with those of sov…
Revolution or Coup? Egypt's Fraught Transition
In retrospect, the January 2011 revolution in Egypt appears to have amounted to an intra-regime coup, with the military faction prevailing over a rival business faction. The full story is more complex
An Uncivil Partnership
This study will examine the Jama'a Islamiyya (ji) as an example of a group that has, in different ways, tried to shape patterns of civility and position itself as an interface between state and society in Egypt. It charts and offers an explanation for the ji's intellectual and programmatic transition fromaspiring to create a totally new polity based on a Salafi Islamic form of civility to an accommodation with the state and apparently more tolera…
The “Camp David Consensus”
This paper explores the nature, background, and evolution of the “Camp David consensus.” Under this consensus, Egyptian intellectuals and political movements broadly accept that the Egyptian regime must deal constructively and “correctly” with Israel as a state, but insist that society has the right and responsibility to resist Zionism. The consensus rests on particular ways of understanding Israel, and the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, th…
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Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter Hinchcliffe© 2009Peter Hinchcliffe© 2009Marc Valeri© 2009Julie Colegrove© 2009Husam Mohamed© 2009Husam Mohamed© 2009Cherine Shams El-Din© 2009Bruno De Nicola© 2009Will Smiley© 2009Amanullah De Sondy© 2009Babken V. Babajanian© 2009Luke Peterson© 2009Luke Peterson© 2009Manar H. Makhoul© 2009Ewan Stein© 2009Stephan Soehnchen© 2009Stephan Soehnchen© 2009Yonatan Mendel© 2009
Islamism and the state after the Arab uprisings
The authors would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council for facilitating the research for this article through their support of the research network People Power versus State Power of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
The “Camp David Consensus”
This paper explores the nature, background, and evolution of the “Camp David consensus.” Under this consensus, Egyptian intellectuals and political movements broadly accept that the Egyptian regime must deal constructively and “correctly” with Israel as a state, but insist that society has the right and responsibility to resist Zionism. The consensus rests on particular ways of understanding Israel, and the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, th…
Ideological Codependency and Regional Order
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Beyond Arabism vs. sovereignty
This article critiques constructivist approaches to the international relations of the Middle East and sets out an alternative interpretation of the role of ideas based on political economy and the sociology of knowledge. It cautions against using constructivism as a way of ‘building bridges’ between IR and Middle East Studies and disputes the claim that the norms of ‘Arabism’ as a putative regional identity are in contradiction with those of sov…
Revolution or Coup? Egypt's Fraught Transition
In retrospect, the January 2011 revolution in Egypt appears to have amounted to an intra-regime coup, with the military faction prevailing over a rival business faction. The full story is more complex
Intellectuals and Political Change in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
This article introduces the special issue on Intellectual dynamics in the modern Middle East. It discusses key themes of the contributions, including intellectuals as social and political actors, intellectuals, power and the state, and history, tradition and regional temporality. Notes1 Earlier versions of the majority of these articles were presented in two workshops on intellectuals in the Middle East organised by the British Society for Middle…
Studying Islamism after the Arab Spring
This intervention argues that the events associated with the ‘Arab Spring’, particularly in Egypt, raise important questions for the study of political Islam as a discrete phenomenon or uniquely resonant set of ideas in Muslim societies. It stresses the need for a better understanding of how specific groups utilize Islamist ideas in reshaping the collective imagination over time, and how these processes in turn affect the popularity, strategies a…
An Uncivil Partnership
This study will examine the Jama'a Islamiyya (ji) as an example of a group that has, in different ways, tried to shape patterns of civility and position itself as an interface between state and society in Egypt. It charts and offers an explanation for the ji's intellectual and programmatic transition fromaspiring to create a totally new polity based on a Salafi Islamic form of civility to an accommodation with the state and apparently more tolera…
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Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter Hinchcliffe© 2009Peter Hinchcliffe© 2009Marc Valeri© 2009Julie Colegrove© 2009Husam Mohamed© 2009Husam Mohamed© 2009Cherine Shams El-Din© 2009Bruno De Nicola© 2009Will Smiley© 2009Amanullah De Sondy© 2009Babken V. Babajanian© 2009Luke Peterson© 2009Luke Peterson© 2009Manar H. Makhoul© 2009Ewan Stein© 2009Stephan Soehnchen© 2009Stephan Soehnchen© 2009Yonatan Mendel© 2009
An Uncivil Partnership
This study will examine the Jama'a Islamiyya (ji) as an example of a group that has, in different ways, tried to shape patterns of civility and position itself as an interface between state and society in Egypt. It charts and offers an explanation for the ji's intellectual and programmatic transition fromaspiring to create a totally new polity based on a Salafi Islamic form of civility to an accommodation with the state and apparently more tolera…
The “Camp David Consensus”
This paper explores the nature, background, and evolution of the “Camp David consensus.” Under this consensus, Egyptian intellectuals and political movements broadly accept that the Egyptian regime must deal constructively and “correctly” with Israel as a state, but insist that society has the right and responsibility to resist Zionism. The consensus rests on particular ways of understanding Israel, and the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, th…
Representing Israel in Modern Egypt
From the heady days of Nasser’s Arab nationalism to the cold peace of the Mubarak era, the idea and reality of Israel has occupied a central position in Egyptian politics, both domestic and foreign. Ewan Stein seeks to explain and historicise the fragile state of ‘no war, no peace’ that followed the 1979 Camp David Accords, examining the way in which domestic factors interact with global and regional shifts to shape attitudes to Israel in the Ara…
Beyond Arabism vs. sovereignty
This article critiques constructivist approaches to the international relations of the Middle East and sets out an alternative interpretation of the role of ideas based on political economy and the sociology of knowledge. It cautions against using constructivism as a way of ‘building bridges’ between IR and Middle East Studies and disputes the claim that the norms of ‘Arabism’ as a putative regional identity are in contradiction with those of sov…
Revolution or Coup? Egypt's Fraught Transition
In retrospect, the January 2011 revolution in Egypt appears to have amounted to an intra-regime coup, with the military faction prevailing over a rival business faction. The full story is more complex
Studying Islamism after the Arab Spring
This intervention argues that the events associated with the ‘Arab Spring’, particularly in Egypt, raise important questions for the study of political Islam as a discrete phenomenon or uniquely resonant set of ideas in Muslim societies. It stresses the need for a better understanding of how specific groups utilize Islamist ideas in reshaping the collective imagination over time, and how these processes in turn affect the popularity, strategies a…
Intellectuals and Political Change in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
This article introduces the special issue on Intellectual dynamics in the modern Middle East. It discusses key themes of the contributions, including intellectuals as social and political actors, intellectuals, power and the state, and history, tradition and regional temporality. Notes1 Earlier versions of the majority of these articles were presented in two workshops on intellectuals in the Middle East organised by the British Society for Middle…
Twenty-First Century Jihad
The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religious and political concepts, jihad has multiple resonances and associations, its meaning shifting over time and from place to place. Jihad has referred to movements of internal reform, spiritual struggle and self-defence as much as to 'holy war'. And among Muslim intellectuals, the meaning and significa…
Islamism and the state after the Arab uprisings
The authors would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council for facilitating the research for this article through their support of the research network People Power versus State Power of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
Islamists and Liberal Values in the Middle East
A new book's argument that Islam is exceptional, with an inbuilt resistance to democracy, sounds to our reviewer like an echo of an earlier era's Orientalist assumptions
Ideological Codependency and Regional Order
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
International Relations in the Middle East
Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores domestic and international foreign policy dynamics for an accessible insight into how and why Middle Eastern regional order has changed over time. Highlighting interactions between foreign policy trajectories in a range of states including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria an…
Egyptian responses to Turkey’s Mena policy from the Arab spring to the Gaza crisis
This paper unpacks the nature and drivers of Egypt’s relations with Turkey from 2011 until 2024. I conceptualise both states as ‘sub-imperialist’ powers that while remaining dependent upon the West enjoy relative autonomy to influence their regional environment. The paper analyses Egyptian responses to Turkish attempts to shape the Egyptian and other regional political systems, assume a leading role in mediating the conflict in Israel–Palestine, …
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