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Arab Regional Integration:: A neo-functionalist and transactionalist analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This thesis is a multidisciplinary analysis of Arab regional integration using the neo- functionalist and transactionalist approaches to integration. Neo-functionalism analyses the process of integration in the Arab World by studying the role of regional
Lakkis, Ramy A, Lakkis, Ramy A.
core  

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Siria: el largo camino hacia la revolución

open access: yesRevista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos, 2011
The winter of the year 2011 has witnessed the beginning of several revolutions, revolts and protests of great importance in many Arab countries. In this context of widespread revolt, Syria seemed to appear in the first moment as the main regional ...
Laura Ruiz de Elvira
doaj  

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

The economic aspect of Qatar's Middle East policy in the context of the «Arab Spring»

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2014
This article analyses the economical interests of Qatar’s Middle East policy. «Arab Spring» has brought to Qatar substantial dividends, which have allowed the world media to see in this country of a new regional leader. Further development of the Qatar’s
A Aleksandrovich Galtsev
doaj  

The Arab Gulf countries and the Arab- Israeli conflict;: the linkages and dynamics (1970-2000) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This thesis examines the changing linkages and dynamics of the relationship between the Arab Gulf countries and the Arab-Israeli conflict through the period of 1970-2000.
El-Hamad, Jawad M. A.
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US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
wiley   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

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