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Investment Strategies Of Gcc Sovereign Wealth Funds: Aligning National Development And Geopolitical Goals, Roy Conners
Investment Strategies Of Gcc Sovereign Wealth Funds: Aligning National Development And Geopolitical Goals, Roy Conners
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines how Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) prioritize and implement investment strategies in the context of national development and geopolitical dynamics. Using a qualitative case study approach, it analyzes the assets, key industries, leadership, and historical evolution of major GCC SWFs (ADIA, Mubadala, ADQ, QIA, and PIF) based on publicly made available information.
The findings show that GCC SWFs prioritize investments in strategic sectors, geographical destinations, and the private sector. These investments align closely with their respective national development plans, such as 'We the UAE 2031', Qatar National Vision 2030, and Saudi Arabia’s …
Social Movements And Resistance: Extinction Rebellion Against Dominant Structures, Samira M. Eltiby
Social Movements And Resistance: Extinction Rebellion Against Dominant Structures, Samira M. Eltiby
Theses and Dissertations
Public dissent is the outcome of governments inaction regarding issues that populations deem as necessary. Social movements are groups that emerge due to dissatisfaction with the status quo that is presented by the current neoliberal world order. The new social movement that is studied in this thesis seeks emancipation, freedom, environmental justice and action, and the dismantlement of neoliberal capitalism as a system of production. This thesis examines the relevance of Gramscian analysis to the study of new social movements, with a focus on Gramscian hegemony and leaderless movements. The thesis uses Extinction Rebellion (XR), a UK-based movement that adopts …
We Downplayed The Signs Of Peace, Then Downplayed The Signs Of War, Yossi Alpher
We Downplayed The Signs Of Peace, Then Downplayed The Signs Of War, Yossi Alpher
Faculty Journal Articles
The October War came as a shock to the Israeli leadership and security community. Their failure to take Sadat’s peace approaches and the imminent threat of war seriously led to changes to both the regional and domestic Israeli political landscapes
Miscalculations And Legacies: A Look Back At The 1973 War Half A Century On, David Makovsky
Miscalculations And Legacies: A Look Back At The 1973 War Half A Century On, David Makovsky
Faculty Journal Articles
Historians continue to debate “what if” scenarios about the pivotal conflict which reshaped the Middle East.
What If The October War Had Happened Differently?, William B. Quandt
What If The October War Had Happened Differently?, William B. Quandt
Faculty Journal Articles
Four “what ifs” that could have changed the course of history.
Shifting Tides: Egypt’S Unexpected Path After The 1973 War, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Shifting Tides: Egypt’S Unexpected Path After The 1973 War, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Faculty Journal Articles
What prompted Egypt to move from a socialist state to a capitalist one, from Israel’s adversary to its reluctant diplomatic partner, from being a country with a strong national identity to a deeply divided one? The answer is war.
United States Diplomacy And The 1973 War, Daniel Kurtzer
United States Diplomacy And The 1973 War, Daniel Kurtzer
Faculty Journal Articles
Before the October 1973 War, U.S. administrations showed little interest in trying to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. The war was pivotal in launching U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and kick-starting serious steps toward Egyptian-Israeli peacemaking.
The 1973 October War And The Soviet Union, Vitaly Naumkin, Vasily Kuznetsov
The 1973 October War And The Soviet Union, Vitaly Naumkin, Vasily Kuznetsov
Faculty Journal Articles
The Soviets tried to work out viable policies to deal with the fallout of the October War and Egypt’s pivot to the West.
Israel And The United States Did Not See The 1973 War Coming, Zaki Shalom
Israel And The United States Did Not See The 1973 War Coming, Zaki Shalom
Faculty Journal Articles
Israel’s mistaken pre-war assumptions about the 1973 War caused it to fail to foresee the potential outbreak of a war with Egypt and Syria. What were these calculations based on and why did the United States follow suit?
The 1973 War And Its Aftermath: The View From Damascus, Murhaf Jouejati
The 1973 War And Its Aftermath: The View From Damascus, Murhaf Jouejati
Faculty Journal Articles
Syrian gains in the conflict were elusive as an unilateral strategic move from the Egyptians put them in jeopardy.
1973—A Global Paradigm Shift, Nabil Fahmy
1973—A Global Paradigm Shift, Nabil Fahmy
Faculty Journal Articles
The outcomes of wars are evaluated based on how close any of the warring parties come to reaching their objectives. In the case of Egypt in the October War, it is undeniable that the country fulfilled its objectives.
Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question, Maryam El-Prince
Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question, Maryam El-Prince
Faculty Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Ringside Seat To Real-Time Radicalization, Lawrence Pintak
Ringside Seat To Real-Time Radicalization, Lawrence Pintak
Faculty Journal Articles
Research on radicalization finds that exposure to violence leads to further violence. Israel’s military campaign has made Gaza a “living Hell.”
Failures Of International Law And Violence In Gaza, Abigail Flynn
Failures Of International Law And Violence In Gaza, Abigail Flynn
Faculty Journal Articles
The recent attacks on Gaza have raised important questions regarding the effectiveness of international law in preventing violence.
‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’, Geoffrey Aronson
‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’, Geoffrey Aronson
Faculty Journal Articles
The war being fought today offers the latest evidence that the brutal reality of Palestinian dispossession has changed little in the decades since Israel’s founding.
Biden Aims To Contain Violence In Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead, Shibley Telhami
Biden Aims To Contain Violence In Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead, Shibley Telhami
Faculty Journal Articles
Biden’s recent attempts at deescalation do not challenge or overturn decades of America enabling Israel’s violent occupation of Palestine. Instead, Biden has continued to systematically dismantle any non-violent avenues for Palestinian resistance while strengthening the militant Israeli far right.
Scouring For Meaning, And Hope, In The Rubble Of Gaza, Karim Haggag, Firas Al-Atraqchi
Scouring For Meaning, And Hope, In The Rubble Of Gaza, Karim Haggag, Firas Al-Atraqchi
Faculty Journal Articles
The latest war in Gaza has shocked the world by its sheer violence, and the potential to escalate into a full-blown regional conflict. Worst of all has been the international community’s deafening silence.
Delivering The Palestinians To Israel: The Lasting Effects Of The 1973 War On The Palestinian Question, Khaled Elgindy
Delivering The Palestinians To Israel: The Lasting Effects Of The 1973 War On The Palestinian Question, Khaled Elgindy
Faculty Journal Articles
In the years following the creation of Israel, the United States became the game master of the Arab-Israeli peace process. For Palestinians, this meant that they would not have a seat at the table for decades to come.
October 1973: Memoires Of A Soldier And Scholar, Abdelmonem Said Aly
October 1973: Memoires Of A Soldier And Scholar, Abdelmonem Said Aly
Faculty Journal Articles
Reflections on how I experienced the war, first as a student-activist, then as a soldier, and later as a political scientist.
The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan
The Fall And Rise Of Bengali Muslim Conciousness: Conceptualising The Identity Of The Bangla Universal, Habib Khan
Theses and Dissertations
The emergence of modern-nation states saw the end of the empirical era of exploitation and exercise of inherent racist tendencies towards the 'other'. However, the effect of that colonial system is still ever-present in the creation and governance of these newly independent states. While every new state aims to be 'modern', they adopt the international legal framework of the West as their own - a system they had initially wanted to escape. The concept of Muslim universality in the form of the ummah should have freed Pakistan from the shackles of its former colonial masters. Instead, this phenomenon was replaced …
International Human Rights Through Queer Theory: A Discursive Analysis Of The Russian, Lithuanian, And Kyrgyz Lgbtq+ Lived Experience Within The Global Paradigm, Mariem Youssef
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis attempts to shed light on the subordination of international human rights law to that of the paradigm of international relations through asserting the existence of US Empire i.e., that emulates historical empires, British and French, which aims to emancipate subjugated minorities, formerly women and presently LGBTQ+ individuals from their national oppressive regimes. This is achieved through a discussion of pervious literature that discusses queer theory with a special focus on Russia, Lithuania, and Kyrgyzstan as the main case studies. While the overt intentionality of the “empire” is to protect LGBTQ+ individuals through perpetuating the prototype of the “International …
Historical Trauma: Literary And Testimonial Responses To Hiroshima, Mariam Ghonim
Historical Trauma: Literary And Testimonial Responses To Hiroshima, Mariam Ghonim
Theses and Dissertations
The concept of trauma is controversial in literature. While one may be able to come up with ways to describe trauma in fiction, representing historical trauma is a hard task for writers. Some argue that trauma can not be described through those who did not experience it, while others claim that, provided some elements are added, one can represent trauma to the reader. This thesis focuses on twentieth-century historical traumas related to a nuclear catastrophe and explores the different literary and testimonial responses to the catastrophic man-made event of Hiroshima (1945). In this thesis, Kathleen Burkinshaw’s historical fiction The Last …
Pathways To Post-Liberal Peacebuilding: A Reconceptualization Through Comparative Analysis, Norhan Ahmed Amin
Pathways To Post-Liberal Peacebuilding: A Reconceptualization Through Comparative Analysis, Norhan Ahmed Amin
Theses and Dissertations
This research aims to evaluate the sustainability of peacebuilding through DDR implementation, and the merit of adopting post-liberal peacebuilding approaches to practical interventions in a “New Wars” era, and rapidly changing conflict landscape. It focuses on the evolution of DDR as a response to changing conflict dynamics and as an integral component for peace processes and peacebuilding efforts, amidst a changing theoretical narrative on peacebuilding. As such, it seeks to answer the following questions: Can the theoretical shift to post-liberal peacebuilding invigorate localized peacebuilding processes, and thus reshape the tools applied to become more effective in achieving sustainable peace? Consequently, …
Fuelling Transition Or Entropy?, Sarah El-Shaarawi
Fuelling Transition Or Entropy?, Sarah El-Shaarawi
Faculty Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
When Consensus Is Reached, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas
When Consensus Is Reached, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas
Faculty Journal Articles
The outcome of the UN climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh gives hope for climate justice, but leaves behind many challenges for the upcoming COP28 in Dubai.
Climate Change And Darfur: A Holistic Security Approach, Salma Sakr
Climate Change And Darfur: A Holistic Security Approach, Salma Sakr
Capstone and Graduation Projects
Climate change is a non-traditional security issue that has evolved into an existential global security threat through its transnational nature. It has direct human security implications that through time turns into indirect traditional security ramifications, which results in higher rates of intrastate conflicts along with regional spillover impacts that destabilizes the geopolitical landscape. Through a comparison of the contexts in Darfur in 1983 and 2003 along with the repercussions that Darfurians face nowadays, I argue that climate change, as a threat multiplier, is the main driver of armed conflicts in Darfur through inter-communal competition over the scarcity of resources that …
The Organization Of Islamic Cooperation (Oic): Opportunities And Challenges For Practicing Culturally-Sensitive Mediation In Intra-Muslim Conflicts, Nirvana Ahmad
Theses and Dissertations
Established in 1969, the OIC sat a unique paradigm in the international order as an intergovernmental organization that claims a religious identity and mandate: working for Muslim unity and interests. In that pursuit, it has assumed the function of the peaceful settlement of disputes as one of its primary roles. Over half a century of its existence, not only did the OIC drift away from its founding principles and commitments; it is now condemned for turning into an arena for polarization among Muslims, where unchecked geopolitical competition has aroused rampant violence of all sorts.
The literature on the OIC extensively …
Security Governance Strategies: Comparing Rebel Groups In Lebanon And Syria, Nourhan Samir Ibrahim
Security Governance Strategies: Comparing Rebel Groups In Lebanon And Syria, Nourhan Samir Ibrahim
Theses and Dissertations
The prevalence of civil wars especially after the end of the Cold War led to the rise of rebels who control parts of national states in the absence or weakness of the central government. Therefore, scholars who are interested in studying civil wars started to give more attention to how these rebels function after controlling a territory. It is substantial to study rebels who govern since they influence the post conflict peace-building. This study aimed at exploring the different factors that contribute to the sustainability of rebel governance during civil wars, and how this sustainability might lead to inclusion in …
Opec+ Versus The United States And World Democracies, Giacomo Luciani
Opec+ Versus The United States And World Democracies, Giacomo Luciani
Faculty Journal Articles
The OPEC+ decision to cut oil production opens the door to further politicization of the global oil industry, particularly between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Russia, Ukraine, And U.S. Policy In The Middle East, Daniel Kurtzer
Russia, Ukraine, And U.S. Policy In The Middle East, Daniel Kurtzer
Faculty Journal Articles
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has influenced U.S. policy in the Middle East, the future of which depends on the outcome of the war, as well as Washington’s commitment to the region.