{"product_id":"diplomacy-of-quasi-alliances-in-the-middle-east-9783959940740","title":"Diplomacy of Quasi-Alliances in the Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Degang Sun | Dandan Zhang | Jinan Wang\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Gerlach Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Gerlach Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuasi-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. Policy-makers tend to seek a third way to strengthen security cooperation and meanwhile avert the risk of conflict. Based on declassified archives and secondary sources, this book probes the theory and practice of quasi-alliances in the Middle East. Five cases are chosen to test the hypotheses of quasi-alliance formation, management, efficacy and termination, including 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 politically binding agreement. The task-oriented quasi-alliance features diversity of functions, flexibility of cooperative means, intangibility of targeting, and limitation of sovereignty transfer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gerlach Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889240195223,"sku":"9783959940740","price":12121.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783959940740.webp?v=1781175165","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/diplomacy-of-quasi-alliances-in-the-middle-east-9783959940740","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}