List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Greater Middle East (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh) -- PART ONE FOREIGN INTERVENTION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST -- II. IR-Theory and Transformation in the Greater Middle East: The Role of the United States (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling) -- III. Connecting Central Eurasia to the Middle East in American Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan: 1979-Present (Simon Bromley) -- IV. US-Russian Strategic Relations and the Structuration of Central Asia (Robert M. Cutler) -- PART TWO STATE, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST -- V. The Iranian Revolution: The Multiple Contexts of the Iranian Revolution (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and S.N. Eisenstadt) -- VI. Iranian Foreign Policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution: 1979-2006 (Eva Patricia Rakel) -- VII. The Middle East's Democracy Deficit in Comparative Perspective (Mehran Kamrava) -- VIII. The Challenges of Modernity: The Case of Political Islam (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh) -- IX. The Turkish Political Economy: Globalization and Regionalism (Nilgun Onder) -- X. The Maghreb: Social, Political, and Economic Developments (Louisa Dris-Aït-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir) -- XI. From Soviet Republics to Independent Countries: Challenges of Transition in Central Asia (Mirzohid Rahimov) -- XII. Central Asia since the Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Economic Reforms and Their Impact on State-Society Relations (Richard Pomfret) -- XIII. New Twists, More Intricate Configurations: The Changing Israel-Palestinian Regional Security Complex (Fred H. Lawson) -- PART THREE THE POLITICS OF OIL AND MAJOR POWER RIVALRY IN THE POST-COLD WAR GREATER MIDDLE EAST.

XIV. Global Energy Security and Its Geopolitical Impediments: The Case of the Caspian Region (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling) -- XV. China and the Greater Middle East: Globalization No Longer Equals Westernization (Kurt W. Radtke) -- XVI. Indian Power Projection in the Greater Middle East: Tools and Objectives (Prithvi Ram Mudiam) -- XVII. The Changing Face of the Russian Far East: Cooperation and Resource Competition between Japan, Korea, and China in Northeast Asia (Roger Kangas) -- XVIII. India-Pakistan Engagement with the Greater Middle East: Implications and Options (B.M. Jain) -- XIX. The EU's Policies of Security of Energy Supply towards the Middle East and Caspian Region: Major Power Politics? (Femke Hoogeveen and Wilbur Perlot) -- Bibliography -- Index.