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  • Publisher:
    Gerlach Books
    Publication date:
    January 2027
    May 2020
    ISBN:
    9783959940733
    9783959940740
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9783959940733
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    • Series:
    Middle East Studies
    Subjects:
    Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Series:
    Middle East Studies
    Subjects:
    Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Quasi-alliance refers to the ideation, mechanism and behavior of policy-makers to carry out security cooperation through informal political and security arrangements. As a 'gray zone' between alliance and neutrality, quasi-alliance is a hidden national security statecraft.

    Based on declassified archives and secondary sources, this book probes the theory and practice of quasi-alliances in the Middle East. Four cases are chosen to test the hypotheses of quasi-alliance: Anglo-French-Israeli quasi-alliance during the Suez Canal War of 1956; US-Saudi quasi-alliance during the Johnson administration; Soviet-Egypt quasi-alliance during the Sadat administration; and Iran-Syria quasi-alliance since 1979.

    The research finds that alliance is a hard balancing based on legally binding treaties, while quasi-alliance is a soft balance based on a politically binding agreement. The task-oriented quasi-alliance features diversity of functions, flexibility of cooperative means, intangibility of targeting, and limitation of sovereignty transfer.

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