Trump's Transactional Diplomacy: Breakthrough or Breakdown?
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
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Socio-economic Development, Population Policies, and Fertility Decline in Muslim Countries [PDF]
Islam is one of the world’s major monotheistic religions. Its followers, spread all over the world and numbering about 1.5 billion people, constitute about one-fourth of the world’s population. The Economist (2003).
Mehtab S. Karim
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From Competition to Compartmentalization: Rethinking Türkiye‐Gulf Relations
Abstract For nearly a decade following the Arab uprisings, relations between Ankara and key Gulf capitals were marked by intense rivalry and proxy contestation across several regional arenas, notably in Egypt and Syria. Why did relations shift toward pragmatic cooperation after such prolonged polarization?
Betul Dogan‐Akkas
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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The Inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser III, King of Assyria (H. Tadmor, 2nd edition) [PDF]
Radner, K
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Assessing retention of pandemic capacities from COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: A cross-sectional retrospective study of health workers in Honduras, Syria, and South Sudan. [PDF]
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Academic Borders and Passport Disadvantage: Reclaiming Lost Dreams, Connections, and Career Horizons
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Atefeh Maghzi
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Explicit Tolerance and Implicit Exclusion: A Study on National Identity in Sweden
ABSTRACT While people in many Western countries report increasingly tolerant and inclusive attitudes, minorities continue to face considerable, and in some cases growing, discrimination and exclusion. In this paper, I propose that the gap may stem from a discrepancy between explicit attitudes and more automatic, implicit attitudes. Most people may want
Filip Olsson
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