Conflict and Integration in the Near East: Regionalism and the Study of Crises.

摘要

The Near East as a subordinate system within the international system has been variously defined in recent studies concerned with the boundaries, actors, and patterns of interaction in the region. Studies differ about what criteria to use for delimiting the region, which countries to include as core actors and which as peripheral ones, and what significance or weight to give to the role of external powers in the Near East.