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Del “11S” a la “primavera árabe: ¿Qué nos dice la opinión pública árabe?
(Pontificia Universidad Catolica-Minas Gerais, Brasil, 2013)The aim of this article is to assess the changes in the Arab and Muslim public opinion through surveys and elections conducted from the ‘9/11’ to the ‘Arab Spring’. The objective is to analyze the opinion trends regarding ... -
Democracy and Democratization
(Palgrave, 2005)Palgrave Advances in Development Studies aims to provide readers with an understanding of the disparate theories concerning development, their assumptions and the intellectual forces underpinning them. In thirteen specially ... -
Democracy in the Balance: Culture & Society in the Middle East
(Chatham House, 1998)Examining the social and cultural forces that have hindered the emergence and widespread development of democratic polities in the Middle East, Mehran Kamrava analyzes the effect politics, in particular, and society-based ... -
Development and democracy : the Muslim world in a comparative perspective
(Praeger, 2005)The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion, but factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the ... -
Development and Stability in the Middle East: An exploration of the dynamics of, and linkages between, development policy and stability, with special reference to the Yemens
(University of Exeter, 1993-01)This study is an exploration of the inter-linked themes of development and development policy on the one hand, and regime stability on the other, with special reference to the Middle East and illustrated in particular by ... -
Development, Administration and Aid in the Middle East
(Routledge, 1998)Successful development in the Middle East remains elusive, although considerable aid is poured into the region and extensive bureaucracies for managing development have been established. This book is a concise political ... -
Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2017-11-01)In recent years, the Middle East’s information and communication landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalising on the opportunities offered by new technologies, the ... -
A Dilemma for Libertarianism
(Sage, 2009)Many libertarians make a moral argument that liberty requires the freedom to exercise strong property rights. From this, they argue that no more than a minimal state with sharply limited powers of taxation can be justified. ... -
Divine Play, Sacred Laughter and Spiritual Understanding
(Palgrave McMillan, 2005)This study in the relationship between religion and the comic focuses on the ways in which the latter fulfils a central function in the sacred understanding of reality of pre-modern cultures and the spiritual life of ... -
Does More Time Spent Calling Home Correlate with Higher Remittances? Evidence from Migrants in the State of Qatar
(Walter de Gruyter, 2012)This paper investigates an intriguing relationship between the demand for telecommunication and remittance services by migrants in Qatar. The hypothesis is that there are important synergies between telecommunications and ... -
Economics Gain of Regional Agreements in the Maghreb: Deeper versus Wider Integration
(World Bank, 2010)International trade was deeply affected by the global financial and economic crisis. Mimicking worldwide trends, imports from and exports to the Middle East and North Africa dropped significantly in 2009. This sudden decline ... -
The effects of the Employment Tax Incentive on South African employment
(United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2017-01)South Africa’s Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost of hiring young workers. We make use of anonymized tax administrative data from the 2012–2015 tax years ... -
An efficiency argument for the Basic Income Guarantee
(Inderscience, 2006)The most important issue in equality – if not in all economic policy – is the persistence of poverty. This chapter argues that anti-poverty policy needs to move away from the categorical approach towards universalism, ... -
Environmental Politics in the Middle East
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2018)This research investigates how ecology and politics meet in the Middle East and how those interactions connect to the global political economy. Through region-wide analyses and case studies from the Arabian Peninsula, the ... -
The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee
(Ashgate, 2005)Governments in the US, the UK and other nations around the world routinely consider and, in some cases, experiment with reforms of their income support systems. The basic income guarantee, a universal unconditional income ... -
EU-GCC Cooperation in the Field of Education
(European University Institute, 2002)The European Union has undertaken a large number of initiatives in the education field, both in promoting exchanges of students internally and with non-union countries, and in encouraging the development of European studies ... -
EU-GCC Relations: Dynamics, patterns and perspectives
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)Relations between the European Union (EU) – understood as encompassing both the collective/institutional entity and the individual member states – and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have developed slowly and initially ... -
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 ... -
Europe, the US, and the Gulf After the Cold War
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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. ...
