Case studies help identify the emerging trends and influences that dominate the political decision making and policy behavior of many states in the Middle East. The chapters investigate foreign policy challenges and debates in various states, changing relations and balance of power between them, and the continuing role of the US in the region.

Opportunities lost : US foreign policy in the Middle East under Bush and Obama, 2000-2016 / Bryan R. Gibson -- Geosectarianism and translocal politics / Farid Senzai and Kamran Bokhari -- Saudi Arabia's regional policy since 2011 / René Rieger and Sebastian Sons -- The kaleidoscope of Iran's foreign policy in the context of profound regional upheavals / Morgane Colleau -- Qatari domestic and regional policy : ideas at odds with identity / Christian Henderson -- Turkish regional policy in the modern era : from zero problems to few options / Robert Mason -- Egyptian regional policy : national security, energy and water / Gawdat Bahgat -- Israeli foreign policy : securitizing occupation / Martin Beck.