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124601
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2013.
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This article examines the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings. The Arab Spring is characterized as a fundamental challenge to the postcolonial political order of the Arab world. The postcolonial Arab world has been defined by its oppressive nature and its subjugation within the international system. This autocratic and peripheral order represents the political legacy of colonial rule, where the postcolonial regimes inherited and refined the repressive techniques of the colonial regimes while, owing to international developments, reinforcing their subjugated status within the international system. The Arab Spring has, thus, represented an attempt to chart an independent path in Arab politics, marked by efforts towards democracy and civil rights. The successes and failures of the Arab Spring are critically evaluated, paying special attention to the role played by Islamist political actors. Beyond an evaluation of the domestic factors behind the various protests, the regional significance of the uprisings is evaluated, providing discussion of counterrevolutionary forces and political-sectarian developments.
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166771
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What are the determinants of public opinion on the issue of the Caliphate in the Arab world? My answer to this question outlines the key role played by Islamist elites, religiosity and age in influencing Arab opinion on the issue of the Caliphate in three countries during the early Age of Islamism (1980s–1990s). I do so by using Binary Logistic Regression Models on observations that I found in survey data collected in 1988 in Egypt and Kuwait, and an Ordinal Logistic Regression Model for data collected in Palestine in 1995. My results suggest that elites play a key role in spreading Islamist ideas in Egypt and Palestine, while age and religiosity are most salient in Kuwait.
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111115
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2011.
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On 16 December 1907 President Teddy Roosevelt launched the deployment
of sixteen brand-new, glistening white, steam-powered battleships on a
fourteen-month circumnavigation of the globe.
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Later known as the "Great
White Fleet," the armada demonstrated America's new ability to project its
power abroad and represented a turning point in global power politics. The
cruise is still widely recognized as an important achievement for the U.S. Navy.
In the century since then, in which the United States has emerged as the world's
sole superpower, its navy has made some strides in transforming itself for the
purpose of dealing with new and emerging global threats. It continues to face
such challenges, and it remains to be seen how effective it will be with its ongoing transformation.
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104677
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144981
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THIS IS A COLLECTION of essays about politicians who have been prominent in the Middle East in the period from the mid-20th century to this day. The collection "Political Portraits of the Statesmen of the Near and Middle East"* launches a new research project at the Institute for International Studies of the Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations (MGIMO), "Political Portraits."
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074960
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095642
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2010.
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Instead of always teaching students how to succeed-as is the norm in higher education-it might also be useful to teach them about failure. Understanding failure (that is, why actors fail to reach common objectives in inter-group settings) gives students deeper insight into how to resolve global problems, and the conditions under which success can be achieved. This enhances student awareness of complexity in world affairs, including the nature of inter-group relations. Simulations are a good way to teach students about the possibility of failure, and how to learn from it, because they allow students to go through the learning process on their own. In this article I discuss how a simulation I ran on Middle Eastern politics can be used as an example of how to instruct students about failure as much as about success.
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121618
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2013.
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The recent protests and revolutionary movements in the Middle East, which commenced in late 2010, constitute a cataclysm not only in the way we understand the relation between states and publics in each respective country, but also in the manner the region is taught. Significantly, Arab media studies has emerged as a vital and extremely functional subject of immediate relevance to the studies of Middle East politics. The explosion of media worldwide and in the region has created new connections, increased information flows, and forged new opportunities for solidarities and transnational dissident identities to emerge.
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111110
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112113
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115061
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2012.
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The train wreck of the Palestinian request for recognition as a state at last year's meeting of the United Nations, which could have been seen coming for at least the whole of last summer, laid bare the total vacuity of the term "Middle East Peace Process" and the impotence of the international diplomacy surrounding it. Such a disaster often occurs when process takes over substance and justifies its own existence by belated and ultimately unsuccessful attempts at remedy. Some of it is a matter of physics-when the train sets out it is relatively easy to stop with a timely application of the brakes. When, on the other hand, it is allowed to gain full speed because of arguments among the engineers, idle hopes that the train will run out of steam, or the simple refusal to acknowledge that it is even moving, the only thing left to do is to lie down on the floor and pray.
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