Browsing Georgetown University in Qatar by Title
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War and Peace in the Gulf: Domestic Politics and Regional Relations into the 1990s
(Ithaca Press, 1991)The book covers the dynamics of the Persian Gulf region with detailed annotations, documentation and sound analytical work. It covers the crucial decade of the 1980s that witnessed a dramatic revolution in Iran as well as ... -
Water Management in the Nile Basin: A Fragmented but Effective Cooperative Regime
(The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), 2016)Ongoing expansions of hydro-infrastructure in the Nile basin, combined with infrastructure completed in the past decade, are increasing the capacity to regulate the Nile as well as the benefits accrued to the Nile waters. ... -
Water, State Power, and Tribal Politics in the GCC: The Case of Kuwait and Abu Dhabi
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2014)This paper shows that the GCC cities’ remarkable capacity to provide water to all their inhabitants despite the regional aridity should not be explained solely by apolitical factors such as the availability of desalination ... -
The Way of Poetry: Essays on Poetry and Contemplative Transformation
(Oneonta Philosophy Series, 2002)The connection between poetry and contemplation has been highlighted on many accounts and in many ways, so much so that it has become a sort of truism. In common parlance, the poet is often considered as an intuitive and ... -
Web-Based Learning in Qatar and the GCC States
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2010)This contribution surveys the historical development and current state of e-learning in Qatar and the GCC states, including the educational, political, social, and financial factors that led to the adoption and development ... -
What Stands Between the Palestinians and Democracy?
(Middle East Forum, 1999)Can the state-building currently underway in the region of the Palestinian Authority (PA) avoid the brutal dictatorships and lack of basic civil and political liberties that prevail throughout most of the Middle East? If ... -
Who Exploits Who?
(Wiley, 2006)This article considers two concepts put forward by van Donselaar in a case against basic income: ‘the abuse of rights’, i.e. receiving income from an asset one has no interest in working with; and ‘Donselaarian exploitation’, ... -
Why we demand an unconditional basic income: the ECSO freedom case
(Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2011)This book brings together fifty of today's finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion ... -
Workforce Nationalization in the Gulf Cooperation Council States
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2012)In recent decades, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have become reliant on migrant workers to the extent that foreign inhabitants constitute nearly one-third of the total GCC population. Qatar and the UAE are at ... -
The Yemen Republic: From Unification and Liberalisation to Civil War and Beyond
(Macmillan, 1997)The 1990-91 Gulf War, the Israeli-PLO agreement, instances of political and economic reform, and the radical political reassertion of Islam, all indicate that the post-Cold War Middle East is in the grip of dramatic changes. ... -
Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States: Elite Politics, Street Politics and Regional Diplomacy
(Chatham House, 2011)The relationships between Yemen and its Gulf neighbours are coming under increased pressures as the winds of the Arab spring sweep the region. How will these changes impact on the entrenched elite structures which have ... -
Youth in the Middle East
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2016)While some of MENA’s recent macro-economic and political developments have created further obstacles for the region’s youth, young peoples’ responses to these constraints have differed remarkably. As such, the process by ... -
استثمارات دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي في الأراضي الزراعية بالخارج: حالة إثيوبيا
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2014-06)In this "GCC States' Land Investments Abroad: The Case of Ethiopia" CIRS Summary Report, Benjamin Shepherd uses data generated from fieldwork in Ethiopia to evaluate the country as a potential long-term source of agricultural ... -
استثمارات دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي في الأراضي الزراعية بالخارج: حالة كمبوديا
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2013)Foreign land acquisition offers the possibility of securing reliable long-term food supplies, but has been criticized as risking exploitation of communities in host countries. This Summary Report examines Cambodia as a ... -
الأسرة في شبه الجزيرة العربية
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2020-01-20)مثّلت القبيلة تقليدياً أقدم مؤسسة اجتماعية في منطقة الخليج الكبرى )دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي واليمن والعراق وإيران(، ولم تنل الأسرة الاعتراف بوصفها الوحدة المجتمعية الأساسية فحسب، بل وكعامل أساسي أيضاً للتنمية الاجتماعية ... -
الأمن الغذائي والسيادة الغذائية في الشرق الأوسط التقرير الموجز لمجموعة العمل
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الإعلام والسياسة في أعقاب الانتفاضات العربية
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2017)لا شكّ أنّ العديد من الأحداث التي جرت إبّان الانتفاضات العربية رُتّبت بحيث تنال عناية الإعلام القصوى، غير أنّها أظهرت أكثر بكثير من مجرد مشهديّة إعلامية. فهي انتهكت حدود الأعراف المدنيّة والسياسيّة التي تثبّتت عبر الزمن، ... -
الإقتصاد السياسي لمنطقة الخليج التقرير الموجز لمجموعة العمل
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الإنتاج الفني والثقافي في دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2018)في حين توجهت استثمارات الإمارات وقطر في البداية إلى الاستحواذ على الفن الأجنبي، فإنها، جنباً إلى جنب مع بقية دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي مثل: البحرين والكويت والسعودية وسلطنة عُمان، بدأت تركز على ترشيد الفن المحلي والمعاصر. ... -
التيّارات الاجتماعية في شمال أفريقيا
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2019-07-14)التيارات الاجتماعية في شمال إفريقيا هو تحليل متعدد الفروع للظواهر الاجتماعية الناشئة في بلاد المغرب اليوم. يقوم المشاركون بتحليل الأصول للسلوك الشمال إفريقي ومعاييره الايديلوجية، ويقدم رؤى إلى عمق السلطة بعد الربيع العربي ...
