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Al Jazeera’s Palestine Papers: Middle East media politics in the post-WikiLeaks era
(Sage, 2013)
Shortly after WikiLeaks published thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables, Al Jazeera released hundreds of classified documents pertaining to the Palestinian–Israeli negotiations. Known as the ‘Palestine Papers’, ...
Back to the Future: EU and Gulf Regional Studies
(Gulf Research Center, 2006)
The GCC-EU Research Bulletin is a quarterly newsletter focused on the relationship between the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU). The newsletter combines an overview of events ...
The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment
(Walter de Gruyter, 2006)
A basic income (BI) experiment (or a pilot project or an implementation trial) is worth doing if it focuses on the right question. Some of the problems with the U.S. negative income tax (NIT) experiments of the 1970s stemmed ...
The Challenges and Limits of Universalist Concepts: Problematizing Public Opinion in a Mediated Arab Public Sphere
(Brill, 2008)
The author reflects on the participation of media in the Arab world's alteration to changes and the effect of the development in the ascendance of public opinion. He argues that the increasing distribution of television ...
Latino Education and Economic Progress: Running Faster but Still Behind
(2017-10)
In America, the Latino story reflects the intergenerational striving of families and cultures to achieve full inclusion. Latinos have a long way to go in achieving educational and economic equality. Lagging college degree ...
Ranking Your College: Where You Go and What You Make
(2015-12)
Where You Go and What You Make provides students and families with a list of colleges with the highest earnings potential. The rankings correct for differences in earnings among the schools, including majors, student’s ...
Comparing Elections in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries after the Arab Spring: The United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This article discusses the elections that were held in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait after the Arab Spring. Through comparison of the elections using a set of predetermined analytical criteria, the article ...
The Civil Society Discourse in Iran
(Taylor & Francis, 2001)
A survey of recent Iranian books and journal articles reveals four important characteristics about how writers and academics in Iran generally perceive the concept of civil society. First and foremost, the notion of 'civil ...
Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World: Promises and Impediments
(Duke University Press, 2012)
The advent of civil society in the Arab world, the proliferation of nongovernmental advocacy organizations, and the expansion of civil society activism have been heralded as promising developments with significant implications ...
Conceptualising Third World Politics: The State-Society See-Saw
(Taylor & Francis, 1993)
The article presents an alternative framework for conceptualizing Third World politics based on the institutional and normative relationships that exist between state and society. The broad types of polities are distinguished. ...