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QATAR’S DEFENSE POLICY: SMART CHOICES OF A SMALL STATE
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Institute of International Affairs
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Defense policy of Qatar to a great extent depends on the geopolitical situation in the Middle East
and it’s heavily affected by the instable relations with the Gulf neighbors. Qatar has conducted a
defense policy ...
Discoursing ‘democratic knowledge’ & knowledge production in North Africa
(
Taylor & Francis
, 2015 , Other)
North Africa (interchangeably used with the term ‘Maghrib’) has historically featured as a contributor to Euro-Med cultures and civilisations. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Phoenicia all at one point in time or another mediated ...
Libya's Arab spring: The long road from revolution to democracy
(
SAGE
, 2012 , Article)
This article presents a critical account of Libya's incipient democratization, contextualizing it within the Arab Spring élan. This first line of inquiry is twofold: it critically assesses the meaning of democratization ...
The Persistence of Autocracy: Jordan, Morocco and the Gulf
(
Taylor and Francis Group
, 2015 , Article)
Through the ebbs and flows of the Arab Spring, Arab monarchies have remained securely in place. In fact, for much of their history, the resilience of autocracy has been a key feature of the Arab monarchies' survival. While ...
Bio-informatic analysis of a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter (AlaNHX) from the salt resistant grass Aeluropus lagopoides
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Pakistan Botanical Society
, 2016 , Article)
Sodium-hydrogen antiporter (NHX) protein regulates the trans-membrane transport of Na+ in higher plants. Vacuolar- NHX is a type of NHX protein located on tonoplast and minimizes the accumulation of Na+ in cytoplasm by ...
L'OTAN et le Maghreb
(
L'Harmattan
, 2014 , Book)
Le Maghreb n’a jamais eu de place majeure dans les politiques et les
stratégies de l’OTAN. Pourtant, après la chute de l’Union Soviétique, des
approches visant à intégrer dans un dispositif coopératif simplifié les États ...
Challenges of Palestinian Security Sector Reform: Blame Israeli Occupation or Internal Political Fragmentation?
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International Publishing House for China's Culture
, 2014 , Article)
The debate on Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Palestine has emerged within the context of the peace process between Israel and Palestinians, in particular following the Oslo agreement in 1993. There are different perceptions ...
An Islamic view towards sustainability: The theory and practice of GCC countries
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Despite the fact that many public policy issues related to sustainability are usually framed in the form of government initiatives and programs, probably an equally, if not more, important topic, is how to change people's ...
Arab 'Parliamentarisation' in the Arab Spring context: The normative vs. the practical
(
Deutsches Orient-Institut
, 2016 , Article Review)
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Towards a ‘democratic knowledge’ turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring
(
Taylor & Francis
, 2015 , Article)
This contribution (and the special issue as a whole) marks a modest attempt to initiate an investigation into what is called here ‘democratic knowledge’. This is done with special reference to the Arab Maghrib (in this ...