Insecurity Communities of South Asia and the Middle East

Majid Sharifi is Professor of Political Science and the Director of International Affairs Program at Eastern Washington University, USA. He is the author of Imagining Iran: The Tragedy of Subaltern Nationalism (2013). His book breaks new ground in connecting what he calls subaltern nationalism to the imperial nature of global governance. His research explores the intersection between security and violence on the one hand, and social movements on the other. As a postcolonial scholar, he has written on decolonizing humanism, an idea drawn from Frantz Fanon’s writings. His current research focuses on consequences of US foreign policy in the making of the insecurity communities of South Asia and the Middle East.

Part I: The Making of Insecurity Communities 1. Introduction 2. Conceptualizing Insecurity as a Regional Phenomenon Part II: Insecurity Communities of Afghanistan and Pakistan 3. Afghanistan and Pakistan as Regional Insecurity Communities 4. Rise and Fall of the Taliban 5. 2001 Regime Change in Afghanistan Part III: Insecurity Communities of the Persian Gulf 6. A Brief History of US-led State-Building in the Persian Gulf Region 7. Shifting Alliances in the Persian Gulf 8. Consequences of the First Gulf War 9 US–Iran Relations Post-9/11 Part IV: Insecurity Communities of Iraq and Syria 10. The Rise of Iraq’s Ba’ath Party 11.Consequences of the 2003 Regime Change in Iraq 12. Fragmentation of Iraq 13. Conclusion