Military relations in comparative perspective / David Pion-Berlin -- Officers and regimes : the historical origins of political-military relations in Middle Eastern republics / Kevin Koehler -- Armed forces, internal security services, and popular contention in the Middle East and North Africa / Fred H. Lawson -- Shifting role of the military in Arab politics? : regional perspectives and implications for the future of civil-military relations in the region / Robert Springborg -- Should I stay or should I go? : comparing military (non-)cooperation during authoritarian regime crises in the Arab world and Asia / Aurel Croissant and Tobias Selge -- Cain and Abel in the land of Sheba : elite conflict and the military in Yemen / Holger Albrecht -- Bahrain's "cohesive" military and regime stability amid unrest / Dorothy Ohl -- Syrian military and the 2011 uprising / Philippe Droz-Vincent -- Egypt : from military reform to military sanctuarization / Chérine Chams el-Dine -- Tunisian military and democratic control of the armed forces / Risa A. Brooks -- Building an army to build the state? : the challenge of building security institutions in post-Qaddafi Libya / Virginie Collombier -- Military prestige, defense-industrial production, and the rise of Gulf military activism / Shana Marshall.

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