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.William R. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Indiana University, editor in chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, and an affiliated professor at the University of Washington.

• 1. Introduction: A Theory of Shock and RivalryImad Mansour and William R. Thompson2. Crucial Fault Lines in the Middle East: Interstate Rivalries in Comparative PerspectiveThomas J. Volgy, Kelly Marie Gordell, and Paul Bezerra3. Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall? Making Sense of Longer-Term Ups and Downs in Middle Eastern and North African RivalriesWilliam R. Thompson4. The Saudi-Iran Strategic Rivalry: “Like Fire and Dynamite” John Calabrese5. Rethinking Rivalry Fluctuation: Iranian Rivalry Behavior and the Domestic Level of AnalysisThomas Keith Wilson6. Iran-Iraq-Syria: Shocks and Rivalries in a Triadic Pattern Marwan Kabalan7. Iran-Turkey Relations: Between Rivalry and Competition Meliha Benli Altunışık8. Dangerous Entanglements: The Rivalry Effects of the Iran and Israel Narratives Imad Mansour9. Revolution and Rivalry Onset: The Emergence of the Egyptian-Saudi (1955–70) and Iranian-Saudi (1979–2018) Rivalries Karen Rasler10. The Algerian-Moroccan Rivalry: Constructing the Imagined Enemy Yahia H. Zoubir11. Conclusion: Assessing Shocks and Rivalry Processes in the Middle East and North Africa Imad Mansour and William R. ThompsonReferencesIndexList of Contributors

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