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The 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections in Comparative Perspective
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The 2009 Presidential Elections and Iran’s Changing Political Landscape
(Elsevier, 2010)Iran's June 2009 elections set into motion four processes that are central to the operations of the Islamic Republic regime. They include: the growing gap between large sections of Iranian society from the Islamic Republican ... -
A Holistic Assessment of the Water-for-Agriculture Dilemma in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2018)Prior to the emergence of the oil industry and the subsequent rapid agricultural expansion of the 1970s, there has been little to no concern about water for agriculture in Saudi Arabia since prehistoric times. ... -
Academic Intervention Services
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Acceptance as an Open Door of Mercy: Riḍā in Islamic Spirituality
(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013)There is no religion that does not start from the premise that "something is rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark," to make use of Hamlet's suggestive expression: mankind has lost its connection with the principle of its being ... -
The AL Jazeera Phenomenon: Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media
(Pluto Press, 2005)Few phenomena in the Arab world are more controversial than Al Jazeera – the satellite television news channel that, despite its brief history, has made itself known throughout the world and changed the face of a formerly ... -
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’, ... -
al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah fī al-mīzān : al-iqtiṣād al-siyāsī wa-al-mujtamaʻ wa-al-shuʼūn al-khārijīyah - المملكة العربية السعودية في الميزان : الاقتصاد السياسي والمجتمع والشؤون الخارجية - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, and Foreign Affairs.
(Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2012)هذا الكتاب هو حصيلة أعمال ندوة نظّمها في العام 2004 "المعهد الدّولي لدراسة الإسلام في العالم الحديث" و مقرّه هولّندا، وقد تضمّنت أعمال النّدوة بحوثًا علمية لنخبة من السياسيين والاقتصاديين والأكاديميين العرب والأجانب، كرّست ... -
Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Basic Income in Practice
(American Political Science Association, 2012)The Task Force on Democracy, Economic Security, and Social Justice in a Volatile World was convened amidst the convulsions triggered by the global economic and financial crisis of 2008. The tumult had already spread far ... -
Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit ... -
Analyzing Middle East Foreign Policies, and the Relationship with Europe
(Routledge, 2005)In the post-9/11 climate, the role of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) states in Europe’s regional security environment and international politics has become more than ever a focus for attention, but remains ... -
Annual Report 2018-2019
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Annual Report 2019-2020
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2020-07)The 2019-2020 CIRS Annual Report contains information about all the activities, research initiatives, publications, lectures, and events that CIRS organized throughout the year. Highlights include the publication of five ... -
Annual Report 2020-2021
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Approches du quiétisme : deux études suivies du Moyen court et très-facile pour l'oraison de Madame Guyon (texte de l'édition de 1685)
(Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1992)Mysticisme et anti-mysticisme au XVIIe siècle: les leçons des Dialogues posthumes de La Bruyère -
Arab Media, Corporate Media, and Public Relations: The Case of Al Jazeera
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)Over the past few decades, public relations has developed significantly in the West into a sophisticated management function which is recognized as an integral part of any organization's attempt to communicate with various ... -
Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC Summary Report
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2015-05)Increasingly, over the past few decades, the cross-border mobility of people and international migration has become a central and dynamic hallmark of human existence. While migration is by no means a recent phenomenon, ... -
Arab Satellite Television and Crisis Reporting: Covering the Fall of Baghdad
(Sage, 2006)The question as to what dictates the choices of various media outlets and what guides the professional practices of journalists when reporting on international military crises is particularly pertinent when considering ... -
Arab Satellite Television and Politics in the Middle East
(Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2004)The new media scene of many satellite TV stations stands in marked contrast with a long tradition of state-controlled television. In many instances, although several of the emerging channels are private, private ownership ... -
The Arab Spring and the Saudi-Led Counterrevolution
( Elsevier, 2012)The author contends that the Arab Spring has provided an opening for the Gulf Cooperation Council as a group and for Saudi Arabia to expand their regional influence and global profile. An already weakened Arab state system, ... -
Art and Cultural Production in the GCC
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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 ... -
Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research presents a compilation of six decades of Basic Income literature. It includes the most influential empirical research and theoretical arguments on all aspects of the Basic ... -
Bengal's Beleaguered Borders
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Beyond the Binary Understanding of Masculinities: Displaced Syrian Refugee Men Living with Disability and Chronic Illness in Jordan
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2020-05-13)This article analyzes the dynamics of renegotiating masculinities among displaced Syrian men with disabilities in Jordan. The article draws its analysis on the personal narratives of four Syrian men who have experienced ... -
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 ... -
Britain and the Gulf Shaikhdoms, 1820-1971: The Politics of Protection
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2009)This article examines Britain’s protection of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States (United Arab Emirates), and Oman during the era of British hegemony in the region: 1820–1971. It argues that Britain’s role as guardian ... -
Building Aid Short Changes the Big Cities
(The Educational Priorities Panel, 2000)For independent school districts in New York State, Building Aid does a fairly good job of progressively distributing funds for equipment and capital outlays. But the same is not true for the five big cities with dependent ... -
Business as Usual: How Albany's "Open Secret" Holds Back Real Progress in School Funding Equality
(The Educational Priorities Panel, 2002)In the winter of 2000-2002, the budget negotiations in Albany began with a lot of excitement about educational funding reform. Budget proposals from the Regents, the Assembly, and the Governor all included reform language ... -
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 ... -
Checkerboard II: An Analysis of Tax Effort, Equalization, And Extraordinary Needs Aid
(The Educational Priorities Panel, 2001)A proposal in the New York State Assembly in 2000 considered eliminating Tax Equalization Aid to school districts in order to fund the elimination of aid caps, called Transition Adjustment. In response to that proposal, ... -
CIRS Annual Report 2007-2008
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2008) -
CIRS Annual Report 2008-2009
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2009) -
CIRS Annual Report 2009-2010
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2010) -
CIRS Annual Report 2010-2011
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2011) -
CIRS Annual Report 2011-2012
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2012) -
CIRS Annual Report 2012-2013
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2013) -
CIRS Annual Report 2013-14
(Center for International and Regional Studies, 2014-07-17)
