Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Methodology of the study -- Defining the Middle East -- Civil society, democratisation and peace in the Middle East -- 'Like-minded' states, Turkey and the Middle East -- Organisation of the study -- 2 New regionalism and the Middle East -- Different forms of regional cooperation -- The development of regionalism -- Relative failure of regionalism in the developing world -- Why regionalism now? -- Changing global economy -- Changing international political scene -- Trends towards economic and political liberalisation in the developing world -- What is 'new' in new regionalism?: Towards 'deep integration' -- Exploring prospects and constraints of regionalism in the Middle East -- 3 Political economy of regional cooperation -- International cooperation: Theoretical basis -- The level-of-analysis problem -- The two-level game: A theory of interdependence between domestic and international forces -- Some conceptual and theoretical problems of two-level games -- Cooperation in the Middle East: the use of two-level-game perspective -- 4 The economic map of the Middle East -- The economic structure of the Middle East -- Climatic characteristics of the Middle East -- Population dynamics in the Middle East -- 'Food security' in the Middle East -- The Middle East in post-Uruguay round world trade -- Developments in world trade -- Trends in the level, composition and direction of Middle Eastern trade -- Sectoral breakdown of intra-regional trade in the Middle East -- Post-Uruguay Round trade in the Middle East -- Macro-economic structure and policy-making in the Middle East -- Conclusion: The need for structural reform and reconstruction -- 5 Potential for regional economic cooperation.

Areas of potential economic cooperation in the Middle East -- Water issues -- Energy-sharing arrangements -- Economic cooperation in the Middle East: A conceptual framework and assessment -- A comparison of solutions to water and energy issues in the Middle East from a two-level-game framework -- Conclusion -- 6 Dynamics of political change in the Middle East -- International Level -- Effect of the end of the Cold War -- Regional level -- Regional pressures for change -- Domestic level -- Changes at the domestic level -- Conclusion -- 7 Potential for regional political cooperation -- Political cooperation: An assessment -- Democratic peace -- Political cooperation towards democratic peace in the Middle East -- Conclusion -- 8 Regional cooperation and the 'like-minded' states -- Turkey and the Middle East in an international context -- Turkey's specific regional concerns in the Middle East -- The Kurdish question and difficulties of cooperation -- Turkey's urgent economic needs and the Middle East -- The water problem and the hydropolitics of the Euphrates-Tigris -- Entry into the Customs Union and its influence on ties with the Middle East -- Changing domestic dynamics of Middle Eastern foreign policy in Turkey -- Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion -- Precautions and avenues for further research -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bibliography of journals and newspapers -- Index.