Coalition Defection: The Dissolution of Arab Anti-Israeli Coalitions in War and Peace

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Since the creation of Israel, during both wartime and peacetime, many Arab coalitions have formed. Every one of these anti-Israel coalitions has failed to achieve its goals due to the defection of one or more major parties. This volume explores the forces behind the dissemination of these alliances to determine why Arab states chose defection; whether or not a distinction can be made between defection patterns in times of war and patterns related to peace processes; and possible explanations for different behaviour patterns. The multi-polar structure of the Arab subsystem, the decisions of pivotal members, and the negative reputations earned by such coalitions have always made defection an easy alternative. The choice to defect was, Kober contends, nurtured by a sense of military weakness and by the priority that coalition members attached to their particular interests over general Arab concerns.

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[o]ffers a unique and important contribution to the study of Arab-Israeli relations....[W]hile Kober's research target academicians and military and national security specialists, he skillfully sets out a cogent and cohesive argument. Anyone with a keen interest in Arab-Israeli relations or Middle Eastern affairs will find Coalition Defection a valuable contribution.-History
"offers a unique and important contribution to the study of Arab-Israeli relations....While Kober's research target academicians and military and national security specialists, he skillfully sets out a cogent and cohesive argument. Anyone with a keen interest in Arab-Israeli relations or Middle Eastern affairs will find Coalition Defection a valuable contribution."-History
"[o]ffers a unique and important contribution to the study of Arab-Israeli relations....[W]hile Kober's research target academicians and military and national security specialists, he skillfully sets out a cogent and cohesive argument. Anyone with a keen interest in Arab-Israeli relations or Middle Eastern affairs will find Coalition Defection a valuable contribution."-History

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AVI KOBER is Lecturer in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Research Associate at BESA Center for Strategic Studies.