Browsing Georgetown University in Qatar by Title
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Qatar: Small State, Big Politics
(Cornell University Press, 2013)"The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani ... -
Qatari Foreign Policy and the Exercise of Subtle Power
(International Studies Journal, 2017-10)The paper begins with a discussion of the typical roles, profile, and position of small states in the international system, explains the paradox that is Qatar’s outsized role and position in the international system, and ... -
Qatar’s Natural Sustainability: Plans, Perceptions, and Pitfalls
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2012)This paper analyzes Qatar’s present and future challenges relating to natural resources and environmental sustainability through the concept of “natural sustainability,” which is defined as the use of natural resources in ... -
Reading the Symptom : Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the Dynamics of Capitalism
(Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1999)Reading the Symptom is concerned with naturalism; it is also necessarily concerned with capitalism as the complex-structuring whole within which naturalism operates and from which it cannot be disengaged. Tightly connected ... -
Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income
(Sage, 1999)This paper questions what could be the oldest principle in U.S. politics: "(s)he who does not work will not eat." In 1608, twelve years before the pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, Captain John Smith established this ... -
Reflections on Iran’s 2013 Presidential Elections
(Deutsche Orient-Stiftung, 2013)Since 1979 the Islamic Republic has held literally dozens of elections for various bodies and portfolios.Iranian elections are always interesting to observe and despite the authoritarian nature of the regimesuch elections ... -
Regionale integratie en het Arabische ideaal, [Regional integration and the Arab ideal]
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The Regressive Effect of STAR
(The Educational Priorities Panel, 2001)The purpose of this report is to examine the effects of School Tax Relief Aid (STAR) on the distribution of New York State aid to school districts. This report finds that STAR so heavily favors wealthier districts that it ... -
Religious and Cultural Legitimacy of Bioethics: Lessons from Islamic Bioethics
(Springer, 2013)Islamic religious norms are important for Islamic bioethical deliberations. In Muslim societies religious and cultural norms are sometimes confused but only the former are considered inviolable. I argue that respect for ... -
Religious Democracy and Civilizational Politics: Comparing Political Islam and Political Catholicism
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2013)Much of the recent literature on the evolution of political Islam in the Middle East and North Africa has debated the extent to which Islamist political parties have become “secularized” in their political goals and rhetoric. ... -
Remittance Flows under Asymmetric Information: A Contracting Approach
(2014)This paper examines asymmetric information about migrant earnings in transnational households and its consequences for remittances. For a sample of Indian households with husbands working in Qatar, we assess asymmetry by ... -
Rentiers and Autocrats, Monarchs and Democrats, State and Society: The Middle East Between Gliablization, Human 'Agency,' and Europe
(Wiley, 2002)The key concerns in work on the politics of the Middle East in the past decade have been economic and political liberalization/democratization and security, both domestic and international, along with a continued focus on ... -
Repression, Fundamentalism, and Terrorism in the Middle East
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Revolution in Iran: the Roots of Turmoil
(Routledge, 1990)Focuses on the political and social factors contributing to the structural breakdown of the Pahlavi dynasty. Features include research compiled from personal interviews with former revolutionary leaders, cabinet ministers ... -
Revolution Revisited: the Structuralist-Voluntarist Debate
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)There are three ideal types of revolutions: spontaneous, planned and negotiated. The role and importance of structural factors versus human agency vary according to the general category to which a particular revolution ... -
Revolutionary Politics
(Praeger, 1992)This book offers a thematic analysis of the phenomenon of revolution. The twentieth century has been witness to a number of historic revolutions, beginning with the Mexican and the Russian revolutions at the turn of the ... -
Royal Factionalism and Political Liberalization in Qatar
(Middle East Institute, 2009)Qatar's much publicized liberalization campaign that began in the mid-1990s was a direct result of efforts by the new Amir, Shaykh Hamad, to compensate for his fragile base of support within the ruling Al Thani family by ... -
Saudi Arabia in the Balance : Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs
(Hurst Publishers, 2006)Saudi Arabia in the Balance brings together today’s leading scholars in the field to investigate the domestic, regional, and international affairs of a Kingdom whose policies have so far eluded the outside world. With the ... -
Saudi Arabia: Family, Religion, Army and Oil
(Routledge, 2012)One of the implications of Orientalism is that the Arab world, as a homogeneous entity, is often analysed as an anomaly within the international system. This book argues that, despite their differences, societies across ...
