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Queering the Family Sitcom
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Almost two decades into the 21st century, television depictions of the chosen family are challenging the more traditional concept of the nuclear family. This essay explores how the pilot episodes of both Grace and Frankie ...
Major Matters Most: The Economic Value of Bachelor's Degrees from the University of Texas System
(2017-07)
This report finds that graduates from University of Texas System institutions out earn other bachelor’s degree holders not just in Texas but across the nation, demonstrating that a University of Texas education is a ...
The Summer Surge in College Unemployment: Why It Happens and What You can Do About It
(2013-08)
The Summer Surge In College Unemployment shows a rise in unemployment that frightens college graduates as they venture into the job market. This rise in unemployment, however, is cyclical and predictable. The study analyses ...
Nursing: Supply and Demand Through 2020
(2015-02)
Nursing: Supply and Demand through 2020 analyzes the growing need for qualified nurses. The study projects that the economy will create 1.6 million job openings for nurses through 2020. Yet, there will not be enough nurses ...
Mediation and Qatari Foreign Policy
(Middle East Institute, 2011)
Uniquely for a country its size, Qatar has emerged as one of the world's most proactive mediators in recent years. Motivated by a combination of international prestige and survival strategies, the country has sought to ...
Migrants in Qatar: A Socio-Economic Profile
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This first micro-level study of temporary migrants from developing countries in Qatar uses data collected during the summer of 2007. The median migrant has the following profile: male, thirty-one years of age, single and ...
Mediation and Saudi Foreign Policy
(Elsevier, 2013)
Saudi Arabia has positioned itself among the primary mediators in some of the Middle East's most intractable conflicts, having played central mediatory roles in Lebanon, Palestine, and in Arab-Israeli conflict. Compared ...
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 ...
Separados y Desiguales:
(2013-07)
El sistema postsecundario es cada vez más pasivo y cómplice, perpetuando sistemáticamente el privilegio racial blanco intergeneracionalmente. Separados y Desiguales: Cómo la educación superior fomenta la reproducción ...