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186126
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Authoritarian regimes in the Global South diffuse compelling narratives of China, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its development success to reinforce authoritarian practices discursively. A case illustrative of this process is that of Egypt under President Abdul Fatah el-Sisi. An analysis drawing on strategic narrative theory highlights that the el-Sisi regime has been deploying a persuasive narrative on China, its development experience and the BRI to reinforce authoritarianism discursively under the pretext of preserving the state’s sovereignty and achieving progress and the public good. Such a process is called Authoritarian Reinforcement (AR).
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ID:
163899
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No two other Arab countries match their consistent level of rivalry and hostility. Enmity has always been a constant feature of Syrian‐Iraqi relations — and it only partially ended with the demise of the Baath regime in Baghdad following the 2003 war. This article investigates the Iran‐Iraq War period (1980–88) and analyzes the factors that determined the conflict between Syria and Iraq. The war occurred when their hostility was at its peak, following the collapse of unity negotiations in 1979. From the early stages of the war, it was clear that Syria was backing Iran against its fellow Arab country. This hostility was interspersed by brief periods when Iraq attempted — ultimately unsuccessfully — to achieve rapprochement with Syria. As the war was ending in 1988, Iraq, in revenge, supported the anti‐Syrian Lebanese factions for no strategic purpose, just to irritate Syria.
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ID:
176595
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While the global pace of civil wars has slowed down in the past three decades, the number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) has increased dramatically. Today, those direct victims of conflicts number nearly 60 million, twice as many as 10 years ago. These massive displacements threaten not only regional and global economies, but also the social demography of states. Moreover, they indirectly increase the likelihood of conflict.
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