Title Information
Title
"Middle Easterner": A Regionalism Denied
Name: Personal
Name Part
Klieman, Aharon
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
author
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
articles
Origin Information
Date Created (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
2008
Language (usage="primary")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
digitalOrigin
born digital
Extent
pp. 305-316
Related Item: Host
Title Information
Title
Brown Journal of World Affairs
Identifier: ISSN
1080-0786
Part
Part Detail: volume
Part Number
15
Part Caption
no.
Part Detail: issue
Part Number
1
Part Caption
no.
Extent (unit="page")
Start
305
End
316
Abstract (lang="eng")
The article explores the perspective of a Middle Easterner on regionalism. Regionalization is defined as a means of generating a minimal, survivalist regional consciousness leading to a surge in economic growth and a modified sense of identity. The region faces signs of wasted energies and misdirected priorities. It maintains a high ratio of military recruitment: 10.3 per 1,000 people under arms in comparison to the world of average 3.6 per 1,000. Other wasted resources include water and oil. The problems of the region are compounded by pathological political behaviors: politics of victimization, politics of negativism and politics of scapegoating.
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/kbbv-tc07