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Uprisings in the Arab world : tyranny, anarchy, and (perhaps) democracy / Mark L. Haas and David W. Lesch -- Lessons from a small place : the dignity revolutions in Tunisia, North Africa, and the globe / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt / Jeannie L. Sowers and Bruce K. Rutherford -- The Libyan spring : from dream to disillusionment / Karim Mezran and Laurentina Cizza -- Anatomy of an uprising : Bashar Al-Asad's fateful choices that launched a civil war / David W. Lesch -- How Saudi Arabia has dodged the Arab Spring / Steve A. Yetiv -- Jordan and the Arab Spring / Curtis R. Ryan -- Iraq and the Arab Spring : from protests to the rise of ISIS / Ibrahim Al-Marashi -- Non-Arab countries and the Arab Spring / Mark L. Haas and David W. Lesch -- Iran and the Arab uprisings / Narges Bajoghli and Arang Keshavarzian -- Turkey and the Arab spring : the rise and fall of democracy promotion in a revolutionary era / Mark L. Haas -- Israel's response to the Arab Spring : a perfect storm or an opportunity for change? / Ilan Peleg -- Russia and the Arab Spring / Robert O. Freedman -- US policy after the uprisings : alliances, democracy, and force / Jeremy Pressman -- Conclusion : the Arab world at the intersection of the national and transnational / James L. Gelvin.

In Frenemies Mark L. Haas addresses policy-guiding puzzles such as: Why do international ideological enemies sometimes overcome their differences and ally against shared threats? Why, just as often, do such alliances fail? Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe, or "frenemy" alliances, are unlike coalitions among ideologically-similar states facing comparable threats. Members of frenemy alliances are perpetually torn by two powerful opposing forces. Haas shows that shared material threats push these states together while ideological differences pull them apart. Each of these competing forces has dominated the other at critical times. This difference has resulted in stable alliances among ideological enemies in some cases but the delay, dissolution, or failure of these alliances in others. Haas examines how states' susceptibility to major domestic ideological changes and the nature of the ideological differences among countries provide the key to alliance formation or failure. This sophisticated framework is applied to a diverse range of critical historical and contemporary cases, from the failure of British and French leaders to ally with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany in the 1930s to the likely evolution of the United States' alliance system against a rising China in the early 21st century. In Frenemies, Haas develops a groundbreaking argument that explains the origins and durability of alliances among ideological enemies and offers policy-guiding perspectives on a subject at the core of international relations.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ideological Similarities and Differences and Leaders' ix 1 Perceptions of Threat -- 2. The Three Wars of the French Revolution -- 3. The Concert of Europe, 1815-48 -- 4. The 1930s and the Origins of the Second World War -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-60 -- 6. The 198os and the End of the Cold War -- Conclusion -- Index

Abstract
Why is it that international ideological enemies—states governed by leaders engaged in deep disputes about preferred domestic institutions and values—are sometimes able to overcome their ideological differences and ally to counter shared threats, and sometimes they are not? Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe are unlike coalitions among ideologically similar states facing comparable threats. Members of these alliances are perpetually torn by two sets of powerful contending forces. Shared material threats push these states together, while the effects of ideological differences pull them apart. To predict when ideological enemies are and are not likely to ally in the pursuit of common interests, it is necessary to know which of these contending forces is likely to dominate at a particular time. The values of two ideological variables beyond that of ideological enmity play the key role in determining outcomes: (1) states' susceptibility to major domestic ideological changes and (2) the nature of the ideological differences among countries. Similar levels of ideological enmity and material threats will have vastly different effects on leaders' alliance policies as the values of these additional ideological variables alter.

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