World Regions: The Middle Eastern Pivot

World Regions: The Middle Eastern Pivot

Co-Sponsored with the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies.

A new research initiative on world regions and civilizations was jointly launched by CIRS and the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies (SBIGS). Integration of social theory and regional studies is a major project of SBIGS, and the pioneering volume on this subject, Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age has just been published in the Institute’s Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies with SUNY Press. This volume highlighted the promise of civilizational analysis/multiple modernities, and within it, singled out two concepts for further analysis: that of world regions and regional unity, on the one hand, and the civilizational constituents of power and the geopolitics of regional divides, on the other.

Background and Scope of the Project

Background and Scope of the Project

A new research initiative on world regions and civilizations was jointly launched by CIRS and the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies (SBIGS). Integration of social theory and regional studies…
Working Group Meeting

Working Group Meeting

Click here to read about the “World Regions: The Middle Eastern Pivot” Working Group Meeting I As an ongoing part of its research initiatives program, CIRS organizes several working groups that convene in…