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EU_GCC Relations: Dynamics, Patterns and Perspective, Gulf Paper Series
(Gulf Research Center, 2006)
This paper examines the development of EU-GCC relations and their movement from a bilateral basis to a more collective level. The paper begins with an examination of European ties with the broader region, and goes on to ...
Fiscal and Social Impact of a Nominal Exchange Rate Devaluation in Djibouti
(World Bank, 2006)
Limited fiscal space limits Djibouti's ability to meet the Millennium Development Goals and improve the living conditions of its population. Djibouti's fiscal structure is unique in that almost 70 percent of government ...
A European View of the US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(EU Institute for Security Studies, 2003)
In this Chaillot Paper, five European authors put forward their views on the role played by the European Union in attempts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the beginning of the intifada in September 2000. ...
A Failure to Communicate: What (If Anything) Can we Learn from the Negative Income Tax Experiments
(Elsevier, 2005)
The U.S. and Canadian governments conducted five negative income tax experiments between 1968 and 1980. The labor market findings of these experiments were an advance for understanding the effects of a basic income guarantee, ...
Iranian Shi’ism under Debate
(Wiley, 2003)
More than two decades after its victory, Iran’s Islamic revolution has resulted in profound theoretical and theological consequences for Shiite political thought. This unfolding discourse especially as represented by the ...
Iranian National-Security Debates: Factionalism and Lost Opportunities
(Wiley, 2007)
Iran’s national-security policy is a victim of the factional debates and disagreements that characterize the Islamic Republic’s political system. ¬¬There are currently three main factions in Iran — the radicals, the ...
The Labyrinth of the Gaze: Nicholas of Cusa's Mysticism and Michel Foucault's Panopticism
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)
Panopticism, the title of Foucault's famous chapter in his book Discipline and Punish, derives fromJeremy Bentham's panopticon, an architectural plan to reform prisons at the end of the eighteenth century. The fundamental ...
Media, Branding and Controversy: Perceptions of Al Jazeera in Newspapers around the World
(Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators, 2008)
This paper examines the effect of the newly launched Al Jazeera English channel on the Al Jazeera brand. An analysis of a random sample of 400 newspaper articles—drawn from 7,830 articles mentioning the Al Jazeera brand ...
The Middle East’s Democracy Deficit in Comparative Perspective
(Brill, 2007)
The Middle East's democracy deficit is a product of the patterns of political and economic development in the region. It is not because the region is predominantly Islamic or is somehow afflicted by purportedly undemocratic ...
Military Professionalization and Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East
(Academy of Political Science, 2001)
Mehran Kamrava examines the current state of civil-military relations in the Middle East and looks at the dilemmas posted to governing elites because of the partial professionalization of the military. He demonstrates that ...