Volume 44 Number 5-6 October-December 2013

Contents

Special issue on The new Middle East: A critical appraisal

Edited by J. Peter Burgess, PRIO, Norway and Costas M. Constantinou,
University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Articles
Introduction: New Middle East, new insecurities and the limits of
liberation geography 365
J. Peter Burgess and Costas M. Constantinou

‘Taming’ Arab social movements: Exporting

neoliberal governmentality 375
Halit Mustafa Tagma, Elif Kalaycioglu and Emel Akcali

Gendering the Arab Spring? Rights and (in)security of

Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan women 393
Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués

Democratic solidarity: Rethinking democracy promotion in

the New Middle East 411
Hussein Banai

The meta-geography of the Middle East and North Africa in

Turkey’s new geopolitical imagination 431
Aylin Güney and Nazif Mandacı

Effective abandonment: The neoliberal economy of violence

in Israel and the Occupied Territories 449
François-Xavier Plasse-Couture

Geopolitics, insecurity and neocolonial exceptionalism:

A critical appraisal of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon 467
Samer N. Abboud and Benjamin J. Muller

Copenhagen–Cairo on a roundtrip: A security theory

meets the revolution 485
Maja Touzari Greenwood and Ole Wæver

Energy securitization and desecuritization in the New Middle East 507

Odysseas Christou and Constantinos Adamides