TY - BOOK AU - Saouli,Adham TI - Unfulfilled aspirations: middle power politics in the Middle East T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197554609 (ebook) : AV - DS63.18 U1 - 327.56 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Hurst & Company KW - Middle powers KW - Middle East KW - Foreign relations KW - Politics and government N1 - Previously issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - The concepts and theories of what constitutes a 'middle power' have played a key part in explaining the identity, behaviour and foreign policy roles of many states in the international system, including the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Brazil. But, with a few exceptions, these frameworks have failed to travel to scholarship on the Middle East, despite the theoretical and empirical potential that they offer for understanding regional dynamics. This book addresses that major gap by interrogating the conceptual, theoretical and empirical underpinnings of the concept of 'middle power' at a regional level UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197521885.001.0001 ER -