Does Arab spring have a spillover effect on Dubai financial market?
In: The journal of developing areas, Band 50, Heft 6, S. 319-331
ISSN: 1548-2278
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In: The journal of developing areas, Band 50, Heft 6, S. 319-331
ISSN: 1548-2278
In: Journal of intervention and statebuilding, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 162-189
ISSN: 1750-2985
In: "Semi-Presidentialism as Power-Sharing: Lessons for the Middle East and North Africa", The Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law & International IDEA Reports: Constitutional Design in the Middle East and North Africa (2014) (also translated into Arabic).
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In: International Conference on Leadership, Management and Strategic Development, 13-15 May, 2013, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Caribbean.
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In: International affairs: a Russian journal of world politics, diplomacy and international relations, Band 58, Heft 4
ISSN: 0130-9641
A speech given by Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Addin Al-Osmani is presented. The topic of the speech is political conditions in Morocco. Adapted from the source document.
In: Africa insight: development through knowledge, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 1-12
ISSN: 0256-2804
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Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes must have been heterogeneous and depended on the local intensity of protests and women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions on health, socialization and household expenditure, as well as a decline in the acceptation of domestic violence and girls' circumcision, in the regions most affected by the protests. This effect is not due to particular regional patterns or pre-existing trends in empowerment. It is also robust to alternative treatment definitions and confirmed by triple difference estimations. We confront our main interpretation to alternative mechanisms that could have explained this effect.
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Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes must have been heterogeneous and depended on the local intensity of protests and women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double difference analysis using data surrounding the period. We find a significant improvement in women's final say regarding decisions on health, socialization and household expenditure, as well as a decline in the acceptation of domestic violence and girls' circumcision, in the regions most affected by the protests. This effect is not due to particular regional patterns or pre-existing trends in empowerment. It is also robust to alternative treatment definitions and confirmed by triple difference estimations. We confront our main interpretation to alternative mechanisms that could have explained this effect.
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In: International journal of political activism and engagement: an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 1-13
ISSN: 2640-0375
The popular uprisings of the Arab Spring have had a profound impact in the Arab World and beyond, and numerous researchers and commentators have explored the causes of these events. The present study sought to build upon an empirical exploration of political, economic, and social predictive factors of Arab Spring intensity by incorporating measures of countries' respect for human rights. Ordinal regression analyses found that countries' scores on the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Physical Integrity Rights Index in 2010 significantly predicted levels of unrest experienced during the Arab Spring, such that countries who demonstrated less respect for physical integrity human rights experienced higher levels of unrest during the Arab Spring. The implications for future research and policy are discussed.
In: The journal of strategic studies, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 180-204
ISSN: 0140-2390
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In: Contemporary Arab affairs: Šuʾūn ʿarabīya muʿāṣira, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 383-399
ISSN: 1755-0912
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In: Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 29-45
Most of the analysis of the Arab spring revolved around the immediate causes of the events and the role of social media in spreading the protests, in countries that succeeded in toppling their regimes. For this reason, this study adopts a different approach to tackle the long-term development of the Political opportunity structures that set the grounds for the emergence of these movements. To avoid the bias of focusing only on movements that succeeded, the paper compares the conditions of the emergence of the Egyptian movement that toppled the Mubarak regime in eighteen days, to the Moroccan movement that faded after a year of weekly protests. Instead of discussing the immediate context in which the movements appeared, or the course of events that the movements followed, the paper adopts a historical approach to review the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial historical, economic and political developments that created different structures of opportunity and threat in each of the two countries.
In: 36 Boston College International & Comparative Law Review 219
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In: Journal of Global Responsibility, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 175-186
PurposeDemocracy and Islam are both capable of multiple interpretations and applications. Islam possesses ideological resources that provide justification for a wide spectrum of political models. However, the compatibility of Islam and democracy relies on the critical questions of: "whose Islam" and "what Islam," and "whose democracy" and "what democracy." The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities and challenges of the recent democratic transitions in the Muslim world.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a discursive essay.FindingsIslamic history has demonstrated that there is no monolithic construal of Islam and politics, and in fact history actually provides hope that a more representative and democratic government might result from the uprisings, with healthier, progressive elements of Islam emerging in ways that were not before possible.Originality/valueWhile other observers have explored the compatibility question of Islam and democracy, very little has been written on the recent political upheavals situating the question within this context.