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Arap Baharı pek çok yönüyle Ortadoğu açısından tarihsel bir dönüm noktası olarak selamlandı. Otoriter yönetimlerin ortadan kalkacağına ve toplumların kendi kaderlerine şekil vereceğine yönelik iyimserliğin tahkim ettiği ilk yılların ardından bölgeye yönelik bambaşka bir tablo ortaya çıktı. Arap Baharının iç savaşlara evrildiği noktada ise bölgede yaşanan dönüşümün başarısı ve kalıcılığı hususunda soru işaretleri gündeme geldi. Devrimlerin karşı devrimlerle bertaraf edildiği, barışçıl gösterilerin iç savaşlara dönüştüğü, egemen devletlerin çöktüğü ve ortaya çıkan boşlukların devlet dışı aktörlerce doldurulduğu y...
Son yıllarda şüphesiz ki küreselleşme/globalleşme nosyonu uluslararası ilişkiler çalışmalarını damga vuran kavramların başında gelmektedir. Kavramın karmaşıklığı bir yana, küreselleşme sürecine ilişkin birbiriyle taban tabana zıtlaşan görüşler, küreselleşme kavramının popülerliğini uzun süredir muhafaza etmesini sağlayan temel dinamikler olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Öte yandan, popüler kavramlara ilişkin yapılan çalışmalar ciddi zorlukları da beraberinde getirmektedir. Şüphesiz ki bu zorlukların başında, ortaya orijinal ya da en azından az tekrarlanmış bir perspektif sunmak gelmektedir. Aksi takdirde bu popüler kavramlar, önemin...
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This book offers an analysis of trends in Arab foreign policies since 1984, including an early analysis of the effects of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent coalition victory over Iraq. The inclusion of Jordan and Sudan allowed for fuller understanding of the foreign policies of states.
A textbook covering the entire field, blending classical topics with the results of new research, summarizing yet presenting conflicting evidence and opinions, avoiding jargon when possible, and focusing on being a textbook rather than an exhaustive reference. First published in 1979 and again in 1987; here two new authors have been added to account for the broadening of the discipline. Some basic background in the biological sciences is assumed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses. The book combines observers' daily reports from the checkpoints and along the Separation Wall, with analysis of the bureaucracy that supports the ongoing occupation. Keshet demonstrates the link between Israeli bureaucracy and the closure system as integral to a wider project of ethnic cleansing. As co-founder of the group, Keshet critically reviews the organisation's transformation from a feminist, radical protest movement to one both reclaimed by, and reclaiming, the consensus. Illustrating the nature of Israeli mainstream discourse as both anodyne and cruel, the book also analyses Israeli media representation of Checkpoint Watch and human rights activism in general. Keshet contends that the dilemmas of these Israeli women, torn between opposition to the Occupation and their loyalty to the state, reflects political divisions within Israel society as a whole.
Ideas of democracy and political liberalization have recently become central to political debate within and about the Middle East. The current focus on the merits of democratic practice in many areas of the world, coupled with the spread of economic liberalism, will inevitably, according to some accounts, bring about a measure of political pluralism. Against this, the persistence of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, together with the fragility of experiments with democracy, has revived an old argument among some Western academics and among many proponents of cultural nationalism within the Middle East, that Islam and democracy are essentially irreconcilable. This book brings together...
This book provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the United Nations intervention in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1947. In his structured and exhaustive analysis, the author presents a long term perspective on the UN intervention in the conflict and explains its evolution during the last sixty years. He draws on a wealth of quantitative data to provide a complete picture of resolutions addressed to the Arab-Israeli conflict by the General Assembly and the Security Council, the mediation activity, and the UN peace missions in the area. Through his analysis, Di Mauro addresses such questions as: Why did the United Nations have different involvement and efforts of interventions in the...
The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestine—including a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon runner—describe in their own words how their lives have been shaped by the historic crisis. Other narrators include: ABEER, a young journalist from Gaza City who launched her career by covering bombing raids on the Gaza Strip. IBTISAM, the director of a multi-faith children’s center in the West Bank whose dream of starting a similar center in Gaza has so far been hindered by border closures. GHASSAN, an Ara...