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Arab Revolutions: the Cultural Background

open access: yes, 2011
Arab Revolutions are the result of a long process of cultural growth: the need to address world economic crisis made evident the clash between expectations and the inadequacy of the political elite.
francesca maria corrao
core   +1 more source

A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
wiley   +1 more source

The Palestinian Israeli Conflict in the shadow of the Arab Revolutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Since its establishment as a state in 1948 Israel has based its relations with Arab countries and the Palestinians on the principles of denial of Palestinian national rights, the threat of military force and collaboration with corrupt, undemocratic Arab ...
Darweish, Marwan; id_orcid
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Arab Spring Uprisings: Revolutionary Patterns and Theoretical Explanations

open access: yesAkademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2014
Literature on authoritarianism and democratization in the Arab world lacks the required political shrewdness to predict and explain the trajectory of current Arab uprisings.
Doha Mustafa
doaj  

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

Arab revolutions from 2011-2012 in Arabic novels

open access: yes, 2015
This paper analyses several novels devoted to the revolutions of Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries in the years 2011-2012. Arab novelists reacted quickly to the very important event, which was the emergence of the Arab
Sh'hadeh, Yousef
core  

Changing Public Attitudes Toward the Employment of Formerly Incarcerated People: The Role of “Human Resources Social Advocacy”

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This registered report aims to evaluate the extent to which the human resources function can change public attitudes toward a controversial social issue. Focusing on the employment of formerly incarcerated people, we explore the novel concept of “human resources social advocacy” (HRSA), an interventionist approach through which HR might pro ...
Prue Burns   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colour revolutions, nonviolence and social movements: Otpor in Serbia

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2014
This article links a theoretical approach focused on the political theory of nonviolent action with an empirical analy­sis of the events that have occurred during the colour revolutions.
Angélica Rodríguez Rodríguez   +1 more
doaj  

Palestine, Public Sentiment and the Limits of Omani Foreign Policy Discourse

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Oman reveal transformations in state–society relations during the Gaza war of 2023–2025, a period of leadership transition and regional rupture. Drawing on elite statements, opinion columns and semi‐structured interviews, it combines framing analysis with thematic analysis ...
Sumaiya Al‐Wahaibi
wiley   +1 more source

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