The Events of the Arab Spring -- The Academic Rationale: A Qualitative Definition of Globalization and its Impact on the MENA Region -- The Structure Of The Book -- PART I -- 1. The Chinese Butterfly and the Arab Spring -- 2. Bread and Globalisation -- 3. Bread And The Arab Spring -- 4. What Is Globalisation? -- 5. Does Globalisation Exist? -- 6. Skeptics -- 7. Globalists -- 8. Quantitative definition -- 9. Realists -- 10. Liberal Institutionalists (Transformationalists) -- 11. Qualitative definition -- 12. What are the Consequences of Globalisation? -- 13. Can Globalisation be governed? -- 14. Conclusion: the Three Paradoxes of Globalisation -- PART II -- 15. The Paradox of Regionalisation Within Globalisation: Some Theoretical Concerns -- 16. Globalisation and Regionalisation -- 17. Realism: the Enduring Hegemony of the State Within the 'Triad' -- 18. Liberal -institutionalism: Regionalism as a Step Towards Cosmopolitanism -- 19. Transnationalism: the Regional Dimension of the Global Restructuring of Production -- 20. How does Regionalisation Take Place? The Mechanisms of Integration in the IPE Theoretical Debate -- 21. Mainstream Theories of Regional Integration -- 22. Intergovernmentalist Explanations -- 23. Neo-functionalist Explanations -- 24. Critical Approaches to Regional Economic Integration -- 25. Neo-gramscian Approaches: A Transnational Historical Materialist Theory of Regional Integration -- 26. Neo-marxist Interpretations of Regionalisation -- 27. Neo-constructivism as a Critical Approach to Regional Integration -- 28. Conclusion -- PART III -- 29. The Paradox of Marginalisation: Globalisation, Marginalisation and Civil Society in the MENA Area 69 -- 30. Introduction -- 31. Technological Marginalisation -- 32. Civil Society, Social Capital and Marginalisation -- 33. Islam and Civil Society -- ANNEX 1: Core Indicators on ICT Infrastructure and Access -- ANNEX 2: Core Indicators on Access to, and Use of ICT by Households and Individuals -- ANNEX 3: Use of ICT by Businesses -- ANNEX 4: The ICT Sector and Trade in ICT Goods -- PART IV -- 34. The Economic Marginalisation and Lack of Regionalisation of the MENA Area -- 35. Introduction -- 36. The Institutional Dimension of Economic (dis)integration in the MENA Region -- 37. The Lack of Economic Integration in the MENA Region -- 38. Investment and Trade Flows -- 39. Inter-Arab Aid Capital Flows -- 40. Conclusion -- PART V -- 41. Tunisia: At the Roots of the Arab Spring: Economic Restructuring Without Integration -- 42. Introduction: It's the Economy Stupid! -- 43. The Restructuring of the Tunisian Economy -- 44. The Integration of Tunisia in the Global Political Economy -- 45. Marginalisation and Extra Regional Migration: the Case of Tunisia -- 46. Conclusion -- PART VI -- 47. Egypt: From Liberalisation to Marginalisation -- 48. Introduction -- 49. The Mother of All Liberalisations! -- 50. The Marginalisation of Egypt -- 51. Macroeconomic Indicators of Marginalisation -- 52. Other Indicators of Marginalisation: Extra-regional Migration and Brain Drain -- 53. Conclusion -- PART VII -- 54. Libya: The Political Economy of Isolation -- 55. Introduction -- 56. The Economic Experiment of Ghadhafi -- 57. The Political Economy Isolation and the Role of the West -- 58. Assessing Libya's Economic Marginalisation -- 59. Conclusion -- 60. Regionalisation (or lack thereof) -- 61. Marginalisation -- 62. Civil Society.