About the Book: Converging Regions: Global Perspectives on Asia and the Middle
East
For over a millennium, Asia and the Middle East have been closely connected
through maritime activities and trade, a flourishing relationship that has given
rise to new and thriving societies across the Indian Ocean region and Arabia. In
recent times, with the global political and economic power shifts of the past
decade, significant events in the Middle East and Asia have brought about
fundamental global change; the Arab uprisings, the emergence of India and China
as powerful global economies, the growing strength of various new Islamic
movements, and serious financial uncertainties on a global