Pinar Bilgin is Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara. She is the author of The International in Security, Security in the International and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology and Asia in International Relations: Unlearning Imperial Power Relations.

In this new and fully revised edition Pinar Bilgin provides an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East analysing the significant developments that have taken place in the past years.

Preface and acknowledgments to the second edition Preface to the 2004 edition Introduction Part I: Pasts 1. Cold War pasts of security thinking 2. Cold War representations of the Middle East 3. Practices of security during the Cold War Part II: Presents 4. Post-Cold War presents of security thinking 5. Post-Cold War representations of the Middle East 6. Practices of security in the post-Cold War era Conclusion: futures of the Middle East