Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa
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Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa
Imad Mansour and William R. Thompson, Editors
Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa is the first book to examine issue-driven antagonisms within groups of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) states and their impact on relations within the region. The volume also considers how shock events, such as internal revolts and regional wars, can alter interstate tensions and the trajectory of conflict. Imad Mansour is an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University and a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute (Washington, DC). He is the author of Statecraft in the Middle East: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and Security.
Reviews
"A strong combination of theory and detailed case studies that deepens our understanding of shocks and rivalries in a region that we too often assume that we know more [about] than we do."—Paul F. Diehl, Ashbel Smith Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Dallas "In the MENA conflict-laden region, zooming in on inter-state rivalries is indeed required and welcome. Successfully marrying in-depth regional knowledge and comparative disciplinary rigor, this book's eleven contributors use more than 7 systematic MENA cases to analyze such rivalries and especially the impact of abrupt changes. The result is a dynamic analysis, both conceptually-driven and empirically-based, of a region plagued by static approaches."—Bahgat Korany, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, American University in Cairo Table of Contents 1. Introduction: A Theory of Shock and Rivalry Imad Mansour and William R. Thompson 2. Crucial Fault Lines in the Middle East: Interstate Rivalries in Comparative Perspective Thomas J. Volgy, Kelly Marie Gordell, and Paul Bezerra 3. Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall? Making Sense of Longer-Term Ups and Downs in Middle Eastern and North African Rivalries William R. Thompson 4. The Saudi-Iran Strategic Rivalry: "Like Fire and Dynamite" John Calabrese 5. Rethinking Rivalry Fluctuation: Iranian Rivalry Behavior and the Domestic Level of Analysis Thomas Keith Wilson 6. Iran-Iraq-Syria: Shocks and Rivalries in a Triadic Pattern Marwan Kabalan 7. Iran-Turkey Relations: Between Rivalry and Competition Meliha Benli Altun k 8. Dangerous Entanglements: The Rivalry Effects of the Iran and Israel Narratives Imad Mansour 9. Revolution and Rivalry Onset: The Emergence of the Egyptian-Saudi (1955-70) and Iranian-Saudi (1979-2018) Rivalries Karen Rasler 10. The Algerian-Moroccan Rivalry: Constructing the Imagined Enemy Yahia H. Zoubir 11. Conclusion: Assessing Shocks and Rivalry Processes in the Middle East and North Africa Imad Mansour and William R. Thompson References Index List of Contributors Contributors Meliha Benli Altun kPaul BezerraJohn CalabreseKelly Marie GordellMarwan KabalanImad MansourKaren RaslerWilliam R. ThompsonThomas J. VolgyThomas Keith WilsonYahia H. Zoubir |