The English school and the periphery regions: the case of MENA and the road ahead

Examines how the English school hs shed light on the Middle East North African regional states system: the selective action of the institutions of international society, above all sovereignty and nationalism, contrasts to the little resonance of some--democracy and the market (which appear in hybrid forms such as crony capitalism) and the persistence of others--war, revolution--that have receded at the global level. Notes how this validates the work of Buzan in particular, on the thin-ness of IS in the periphery regions of the globe. Proposes that, if combined with neo-Gramscianism, ES could develop a more robust theory of change.