Territory and Globalization in Contemporary Middle East

Territory is one of the key elements in understanding international affairs in the coming centuries. While there are evidences of an increase in deterritorialization and hyper-nationalism in the world, it seems that the political rules and regulations in the Middle East will be based on territory-centrism, which belongs to the modern era. This study aims to analyze the events, currents and changes in this part of the world using a nonrealistic approach; in other words, while the expansion of transnational processes is not denied, the re-territorialization in this region by nation states is demonstrated from a novel point of view. The argument in this paper is based on the point that both deterritoialization and re-terrioialization of currents and events will remain a lower priority in comparison with the classical and modern principle of territory-centrism in the Middle East. Distinct geography and geographical facts in the Middle East, compared to those of other regions, especially the European Union and North America, have given rise to the present essay which tries to defend the durability and permanence of territorycentrism and its role in the Middle Eastern affairs.