Ideologies, Alignments, and Underbalancing in the New Middle East Cold War

Gause, F. Gregory

doi:10.1017/s1049096517000373

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“…Also, the Kingdom attempted to establish its leadership and gain regional status through building alliances and coalitions in the region. This attempt is illustrated by an effort to build a regional coalition against Iran (Gause, ), the formation of a 34‐country Islamic military alliance against terrorism (Jenkins, ), and leading region‐wide repressive policies against the Muslim Brotherhood (Darwich, ). The Saudi bid for higher status was evident in significant increases in military spending after 2011 despite falling oil prices and growing budget deficit.…”

Section: Saudi Arabia: Saving Face In Yemenmentioning

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Escalation in Failed Military Interventions: Saudi and Emirati Quagmires in Yemen

Darwich

2020

Global Policy

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External interventions are an enduring feature of international relationships. While the causes for interventions have been at the heart of studies on interventions, the dynamics of termination versus escalation have received little attention. This article poses the question: why do intervenors persist in failed military interventions despite diminishing prospects of victory? Whereas some scholars adhered to rational choice approaches, others focused on cognitive and emotional psychology to explain seemingly puzzling decisions at the origin of war continuation. This article builds on the emerging literature on status in IR to unravel the escalation of commitment to a failed war. It argues that when leaders engage their own status and that of their countries to an eventual success in a military intervention, persistence in the war becomes the only solution to salvage their status. Through this lens, this article presents an explanation for Saudi and Emirati escalations in what was planned as a brief operation in Yemen since 2015. Understanding the dynamics of persisting in failed wars has clear implications for the development of international relations theory, the conduct of regional powers in military interventions, and the practice of conflict resolution in the Middle East and beyond.

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Escalation in Failed Military Interventions: Saudi and Emirati Quagmires in Yemen

Darwich

2020

Global Policy

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“…2 7 -4 6 democracia en Amérca Latina en las décadas de 1980 y principios de 1990 4 . A esta situación, que apunta a la existencia de una distribución multipolar del poder internacional, se agrega la multipolaridad ideológica en Medio Oriente (Gause, 2015). Un caso ilustrativo de la misma es lo que ha ocurrido con la dimensión tercermundista y de "resistencia al imperialismo" en los procesos revolucionarios en curso.…”

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Siete años después: Medio Oriente y el contexto internacional

Tawil¹

2018

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Este artículo explora, entre los países de la llamada Primavera Árabe, la relación entre contexto internacional -entendido en términos de geografía, distribución del poder y agenda normativa mundial-y cambio de régimen o crisis política, a partir de la experiencia de algunos países árabes en la coyuntura crítica inaugurada en Túnez en diciembre de 2010. En todos los casos, el entorno internacional ha sido con frecuencia determinante en el desarrollo de dinámicas económicas, sociales y políticas, aunque los objetivos y las consecuencias de esa interacción son muy distintos según el país. El examen se desarrolla en torno a tres áreas temáticas: economía y política, violencia, y política exterior.Palabras clave: sublevaciones árabes, presiones internacionales, economía, política, violencia, política exterior. Seven Years Later: The Middle East in the International Context ABSTRACTThis article explores, in the countries of the so-called Arab Spring, the relationship between the international context -understood in terms of geography, the distribution of power, and the global normative agenda-and regime change or political crisis, based on the experience of some Arab countries in the crisis that started in Tunisia on December 2010. In all cases, the international environment has often been determinant in the development of economic, social and political dynamics, although the objectives and consequences of such interaction are very different according to the country. The exam is developed around

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“…For insight into how concerns about regime survival shape states' decisions in the Middle East regarding how and where to intervene in other countries, see Gause (2017) and Ryan (2015).…”

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Varieties of International Influence and the Middle East

Bush

2017

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Ideologies, Alignments, and Underbalancing in the New Middle East Cold War

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Escalation in Failed Military Interventions: Saudi and Emirati Quagmires in Yemen

Escalation in Failed Military Interventions: Saudi and Emirati Quagmires in Yemen

Siete años después: Medio Oriente y el contexto internacional

Varieties of International Influence and the Middle East

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