International Society and the Middle East brings together a distinguished cast of theorists and Middle East experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the region's history and how its own traditions have mixed, often uncomfortably, with the political structures imposed by the expansion of Western international society.

The Middle East and Conceptions of 'International Society'; F.Halliday The Middle East through English School Theory; B.Buzan The Ottoman Empire and its Precedents from the Perspective of English School Theory; A.K.Bennison The Middle East Encounter with the Expansion of European International Society; A.N.Yurdusev The Primary Institutions of the Middle Eastern Regional Interstate Society; A.Gonzalez-Pelaez The Secondary Institutions of the Middle Eastern Regional Interstate Society; S.W.Murden Arab Nationalism(s) in Transformation: From Arab Interstate Societies to an Arab-Islamic World Society; M.Valbjørn Islam, the Middle East, and the Pan-Islamic Movement; S.H.Hashmi Order and Change in the Middle East: A Neo-Gramscian Twist on the International Society Approach; R.Hinnebusch Conclusions; B.Buzan& A.Gonzalez Pelaez

BARRY BUZAN is Professor of International Relations at the LSE, UK, a Fellow of the British Academy, and Honorary Professor at Copenhagen and Jilin Universities. Recent publications include Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security (2003, with Ole Wæver); and From International to World Society? English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation (2004).

ANA GONZALEZ-PELAEZ is an independent writer and advisor on international affairs, trade and development. She has served as a consultant in the Middle East and worked in broadcast news media. Publications include Human Rights and World Trade (2005).