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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Why Putin Would Be Happy With Or Without War In Syria?, Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Why Putin Would Be Happy With Or Without War In Syria?, Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Ahmed E SOUAIAIA
Talking to reporters after the conclusion of the G20 meeting, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, declared that any military intervention in Syria without UNSC authorization is an illegal act of aggression. He also said that his country will supply (sell, that is) the Syrian government with weapons to defend itself. This statement, in a sense, clarifies an earlier declaration by his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, when he said that if the U.S. starts a war in Syria, Russia will not be part of it. Some analysts thought that Lavrov’s statement signaled Russia’s readiness to abandon Assad. The increased number …
Strategic Landpower And The Arabian Gulf, W. Andrew Terrill
Strategic Landpower And The Arabian Gulf, W. Andrew Terrill
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Review Essay: After The Arab Spring, W. Andrew Terrill
Review Essay: After The Arab Spring, W. Andrew Terrill
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
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Revolt And Resilience In The Arab Kingdoms, Zoltan Barany
Revolt And Resilience In The Arab Kingdoms, Zoltan Barany
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
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Woes Of The Arkansas Internationalist: J. William Fulbright, The Middle East, And The Death Of American Liberalism, Mitchell Smith
Woes Of The Arkansas Internationalist: J. William Fulbright, The Middle East, And The Death Of American Liberalism, Mitchell Smith
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Contemporary scholarship has shown that J. William Fulbright's defeat in 1974 was due to a plethora of reasons including his opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam, lackadaisical attitude towards the monolithic threat of Communism, connection to the Washington establishment amidst the Watergate scandal, and old age. Scholars, however, have not paid enough attention to the role Fulbright's Middle Eastern stances played in his final election campaign. I seek to place the voice of Arkansans in the national and international political discussions and show that, despite their relatively unfocused interest in Middle Eastern affairs (and perhaps because of that lack of …
Gender Standards V. Democratic Standards: Revisiting The Paradox, Amel Mili
Gender Standards V. Democratic Standards: Revisiting The Paradox, Amel Mili
Journal of International Women's Studies
In our past work, we had analyzed the correlation between gender standards and democratic standards in post-colonial North Africa, and found it to be essentially non-existent, despite the fact that these two standards are highly correlated worldwide, and despite the analytical evidence to the effect that they go hand in hand. We revisit our previous analysis, in light of recent developments in North Africa and the Middle East.
Social Status And Change: The Question Of Access To Resources And Women's Empowerment In The Middle East And North Africa, Elhum Haghighat
Social Status And Change: The Question Of Access To Resources And Women's Empowerment In The Middle East And North Africa, Elhum Haghighat
Journal of International Women's Studies
Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) do not face a single social ideology that opposes change. It is incorrect to conclude that Islam per se is predominantly responsible for limiting women’s access to resources, employment, reproductive health, and social services. It is critical, however, to understand how Islam is used as an instrument of control in the hands of the governing elite; when expedient, Islam and historical traditions of patriarchy supply a framework and a justification for impeding or limiting women’s progress. At times, it has also been used in concert with government aims to slow population …
Palestinian Women’S Everyday Resistance: Between Normality And Normalisation, Sophie Richter-Devroe
Palestinian Women’S Everyday Resistance: Between Normality And Normalisation, Sophie Richter-Devroe
Journal of International Women's Studies
The paper traces Palestinian women’s understandings, practices and framings of everyday resistance. Women’s resistance acts consist of both materially-based survival strategies and various coping strategies at the ideational level. Focusing on the latter, this study investigates women’s practices of travelling to create (a sense of) normal joyful life for themselves, their families, friends and community with the aim of shedding light upon the complex and mutually constitutive interplay between women’s agency and the various social and political power structures. It is argued that Palestinian women, although framing their acts of crossing Israeli-imposed physical restriction as acts of resistance against the …