From Sidi Bou Zid to Sidi Bou Said: a longue durée approach to the Tunisian revolutions / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Egypt: the origins and the consequences of the January 25 uprising / Bruce K. Rutherford -- The Arab Spring: Libya's second revolution / Mary-Jane Deeb -- The uprising that wasn't supposed to happen: Syria and the Arab Spring / David W. Lesch -- Oil, Saudi Arabia, and the spring that has not come / Steve A. Yetiv -- Jordan and the Arab Spring / Curtis R. Ryan -- The gift and the curse: Iran and the Arab Spring / Reza Marashi and Trita Parsi -- Turkey and the Arab Spring: ideological promotion in a revolutionary era / Mark L. Haas -- Israel and the Arab Spring: the victory of anxiety / Ilan Peleg -- Russia and the Arab Spring: a preliminary appraisal / Robert O. Freedman -- Same old story?: Obama and the Arab uprisings / Jeremy Pressman -- Conclusion: the Arab world at the intersection of the national and transnational / James L. Gelvin.