A New Middle East? Globalization, Peace and the 'Double Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4444534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guy Ben-Porat (0000-0002-7427-355X, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-62 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0047117805050061 |
| OpenAlex | W1987366893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 13 |
The 'rise and fall' of the New Middle East (NME) cannot be separated from wider global developments and must therefore be studied in relation to them, in both their ideational and material aspects. The ideological background of the NME has drawn upon the ideology of globalization and shares its underlying tenets of rationality, professionalism and virtues of market economy. In the early 1990s a discourse of globalization was set in motion, highlighting economic and technological development that supposedly rendered territory and territorial disputes marginal or irrelevant. The NME, supported by Israel's business, political and academic elites, advocated liberal economics and peace as a solution to the region's problems. But Israeli elites have failed to turn the idea of the NME into a hegemonic concept, as this attempted liberal hegemony invoked a Polanyian 'double movement' that undermined the peace process. The scenario of the NME and the trade-off between territorial integrity and promised regional prosperity not only met fierce ideological rejection, but, perhaps more importantly, failed to persuade the many more skeptics. Limited in its appeal and lacking sufficient legitimacy, the peace process was exposed to derailment by extremists, locking the region into cycles of violence
Globalization · Hegemony · Ideology · Legitimacy · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Rationality · Sociology · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
Israel’s Neoliberal Turn and its National Security Paradigm
E ngaging “P rimitive D emocracy ”
Moving away from partition
Netanyahu's Second Coming
The Political Economy of Peace Processes
The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process
Israel since 1980
Political culture, alternative politics and foreign policy
Path Dependence in Settlement Processes
Greater Chinese' Global Production Networks in the Middle East
The Great Transformation
A Path Strewn with Thorns
Ideologies of Globalization
Has Globalization Gone Too Far
Israeli professionals and the peace process
The effects of the peace process on the Israeli economy
The geography of collective identities in a globalizing world
Social movements for global capitalism
De-development Revisited
Capitalists vs. the media
Strategy for a Transition Period
Global Hegemony and the Structural Power of Capital
| Citations per year | 0.48 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2018 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |