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Divided They Dally? The Arab World and a Nuclear Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Explores how the Arab states -- Gulf States, non-Gulf States, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria -- might react to a nuclear Iran. Considers possible changes to inter-Arab relations and the United States' role in working with Arab states to contain ...
Michael Young
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International Solidarity: Principles, Challenges, and Pathways to a Shared Future

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the concept of international solidarity, emphasizing its significance in both historical and contemporary contexts. Notable movements such as Palestine solidarity movement, the global workers' movement and the Anti‐Apartheid Movement illustrate how individuals and communities across borders unite to challenge injustice ...
Simin Fadaee
wiley   +1 more source

Hezbollah’s Organized Criminal Enterprises in Europe

open access: yesPerspectives on Terrorism, 2013
Hezbollah plots in Europe over the past year exposed a return to violent operations being conducted by the Iranian supported Lebanese Shi’ite group.
Matthew Levitt
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Exploring Ethnocracy and the Possibilities of Coexistence in Beirut [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In response to James Anderson’s article “Ethnocracy: Exploring and extending the concept”, this article revisits some of the extensive discussions of Lebanon’s political sectarianism through the prism of ethnocracy to the extent that it contributes to an
Kastrissianakis, Konstantin
core   +3 more sources

Outsmarting sanctions

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 34-44, February 2026.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
wiley   +1 more source

For a ‘More Active’ EU in the Middle East: Transatlantic Relations and the Strategic Implications of Europe’s Engagement with Iran, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine. Egmont Paper, no. 13, March 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS), calls for the EU to be ‘more active’ in pursuing its strategic objectives. The two probably most salient examples of a ‘more active’ EU are to be found in the Middle East.
Biscop, Sven.
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Mitigating the Negative Transfer in Multi‐Task Learning for Harmful Language Detection in Spanish and Arabic

open access: yesExpert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Negative transfer continues to limit the benefits of multi‐task learning (MTL) in harmful language detection, where related tasks must share representations without diluting task‐specific nuances. We introduce task awareness (TA), a methodological framework that explicitly conditions MTL models on the task they must solve.
Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Signs of Statehood of Hamas, Hezbollah and ISIS: Historiographical Review

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2019
The article is a historiographical study devoted to the analysis of the signs of statehood of such actors of the Middle East policy as Hamas, Hezbollah and ISIS.
V. M. Morozov
doaj   +1 more source

The Transatlantic Dimension to the Conflict in Lebanon: Whatever Happened to the Responsibility to Protect? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this BASIC Paper, Dr. Ian Davis examines the U.S. and U.K. roles and responsibilities in the Lebanon conflict. He supports the call being made by many governments and civil society groups: that a political solution to the twin crises of Lebanon and ...
Ian Davis
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The analytical framework of water and armed conflict: a focus on the 2006 Summer War between Israel and Lebanon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper develops an analytical framework to investigate the relationship between water and armed conflict, and applies it to the ‘Summer War’ of 2006 between Israel and Lebanon (Hezbollah).
Achcar   +66 more
core   +1 more source

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