Samer S. Shehata is the Colin Mackey and Patricia Molina de Mackey Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at David L. Boren College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma. He is also the author of Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt (2009) and editor of Islamist Politics in the Middle East: Movements and Change (2012).

A good book takes one’s breath away and this superb volume on the many dimensions of inter-state, intra-state relations, and non-state interactions in the Middle East, is one such volume. Its layered analysis, by some of the most innovative minds in the business, explores every significant ‘state theatre’ in this region, bringing multitudes of insights together to enable the reader to develop a true multi-dimensional picture of the forces which have been in play since the Arab uprisings. This is the kind of volume that will inform and educate for years to come.

• Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsMap Introduction Samer S. Shehata 1 Power Politics in the Post-uprisings Middle EastMarc Lynch 2 Between Tragedy and Chaos: US Policy in a Turbulent Middle East under Obama and Trump Waleed Hazbun3 The Perennial Outsider: Israel and Regional Order Change Post-2011Noa Schonmann 4 Iran’s Syria Policy and Its Regional Dimensions Nader Entessar 5 Turkey and the Syrian Crisis Gencer Özcan and Soli Özel 6 Implications of the Qatar Crisis for ‘Post-GCC’ Regional PoliticsKristian Coates Ulrichsen 7 Sovereignty for Security: The Paradox of Urgency and Intervention in Yemen Waleed Mahdi 8 The Regional Dimensions of Egypt’s ‘Failed Democratic Transition’Samer S. Shehata 9 Al-Qaida’s Failure in the Fertile Crescent Cole Bunzel 10 Salafi Politics amid the Chaos: Revolution at Home and Revolution Abroad? Valeria Resta and Francesco CavatortaSelect BibliographyIndex

Samer S. Shehata is the Colin Mackey and Patricia Molina de Mackey Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at David L. Boren College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma. He is also the author of Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt (2009) and editor of Islamist Politics in the Middle East: Movements and Change (2012).

A good book takes one’s breath away and this superb volume on the many dimensions of inter-state, intra-state relations, and non-state interactions in the Middle East, is one such volume. Its layered analysis, by some of the most innovative minds in the business, explores every significant ‘state theatre’ in this region, bringing multitudes of insights together to enable the reader to develop a true multi-dimensional picture of the forces which have been in play since the Arab uprisings. This is the kind of volume that will inform and educate for years to come.

• Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsMap Introduction Samer S. Shehata 1 Power Politics in the Post-uprisings Middle EastMarc Lynch 2 Between Tragedy and Chaos: US Policy in a Turbulent Middle East under Obama and Trump Waleed Hazbun3 The Perennial Outsider: Israel and Regional Order Change Post-2011Noa Schonmann 4 Iran’s Syria Policy and Its Regional Dimensions Nader Entessar 5 Turkey and the Syrian Crisis Gencer Özcan and Soli Özel 6 Implications of the Qatar Crisis for ‘Post-GCC’ Regional PoliticsKristian Coates Ulrichsen 7 Sovereignty for Security: The Paradox of Urgency and Intervention in Yemen Waleed Mahdi 8 The Regional Dimensions of Egypt’s ‘Failed Democratic Transition’Samer S. Shehata 9 Al-Qaida’s Failure in the Fertile Crescent Cole Bunzel 10 Salafi Politics amid the Chaos: Revolution at Home and Revolution Abroad? Valeria Resta and Francesco CavatortaSelect BibliographyIndex

Samer S. Shehata is the Colin Mackey and Patricia Molina de Mackey Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at David L. Boren College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma. He is also the author of Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt (2009) and editor of Islamist Politics in the Middle East: Movements and Change (2012).

A good book takes one’s breath away and this superb volume on the many dimensions of inter-state, intra-state relations, and non-state interactions in the Middle East, is one such volume. Its layered analysis, by some of the most innovative minds in the business, explores every significant ‘state theatre’ in this region, bringing multitudes of insights together to enable the reader to develop a true multi-dimensional picture of the forces which have been in play since the Arab uprisings. This is the kind of volume that will inform and educate for years to come.

• Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsMap Introduction Samer S. Shehata 1 Power Politics in the Post-uprisings Middle EastMarc Lynch 2 Between Tragedy and Chaos: US Policy in a Turbulent Middle East under Obama and Trump Waleed Hazbun3 The Perennial Outsider: Israel and Regional Order Change Post-2011Noa Schonmann 4 Iran’s Syria Policy and Its Regional Dimensions Nader Entessar 5 Turkey and the Syrian Crisis Gencer Özcan and Soli Özel 6 Implications of the Qatar Crisis for ‘Post-GCC’ Regional PoliticsKristian Coates Ulrichsen 7 Sovereignty for Security: The Paradox of Urgency and Intervention in Yemen Waleed Mahdi 8 The Regional Dimensions of Egypt’s ‘Failed Democratic Transition’Samer S. Shehata 9 Al-Qaida’s Failure in the Fertile Crescent Cole Bunzel 10 Salafi Politics amid the Chaos: Revolution at Home and Revolution Abroad? Valeria Resta and Francesco CavatortaSelect BibliographyIndex