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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 190-199, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 293-306, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical Meeting Point Between Psychology and Union Renewal

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent years, a critical position has been developed regarding the role of work and organisational psychology (WOP) as a scientific tool for corporate interests and as an ideological instrument that contributes to producing the forms of subjectivity necessary to reproduce the capitalist system.
Xavier Mínguez Alcaide
wiley   +1 more source

From Palestine Ally to Zionist Partner: India‐Israel Relations, 2014–2025

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 156-174, Summer 2026.
Abstract India's pro‐Palestinian diplomatic posture, which held for nearly 70 years, has been transformed within a single decade of rule by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), turning New Delhi into one of Israel's most consequential Asian partners. This shift has narrowed the coalition supporting the Palestinian cause.
Yücel Bulut
wiley   +1 more source

Trump's Transactional Diplomacy: Breakthrough or Breakdown?

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 24-40, Summer 2026.
Abstract The US‐Israeli war on Iran appears to demonstrate the perils of a transactional diplomacy that dismisses the rules‐based, liberal international order in pursuit of American dominance. Much of the growing literature assumes transactional diplomacy will be a temporary, Trump‐driven departure from traditional, values‐based statecraft. By contrast,
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence technologies in Islamic education systems

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This article aims to investigate challenges of the new technologies on Islamic education system. The progress in educational technologies have significantly influenced the content, methods of instruction and assessment over the last few decades. Distance
Shogar, Ibrahim   +1 more
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Between Ideology and Strategy: The Iranian Revolution and the Reconfiguration of Middle Eastern Security

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 41-56, Summer 2026.
Abstract The Iranian revolution of 1979 is generally portrayed either as the catalyst of sectarian polarization in the Middle East or, more recently, as the foundation of a pragmatic grand strategy shaped by geopolitical insecurity and learning forged by decades of war. This article challenges this binary opposition between ideology and strategy.
Alabbas F. Alsudani
wiley   +1 more source

Analysing the opportunities of using a smart Sukuk model for Islamic microfinance institutions in Bangladesh

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Sukukoffers lower-risk Islamic bonds for individual investors. It also provides more affordable, interest-free funding choices for enterprises.
Mahadi, Nur Farhah   +2 more
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