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Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines why Gulf foreign aid has remained predominantly bilateral and fragmented since its emergence in the 1960s, despite the establishment of regional institutions, recurring regional crises and repeated calls for greater coordination.
Khalid Almezaini
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Palestine, Public Sentiment and the Limits of Omani Foreign Policy Discourse
Global 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
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Lessons from China’s Three-Decade Distributed Photovoltaic Development for Yemen
Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment SystemsTranslating global distributed photovoltaic successes to Yemen’s fragile and conflict-affected context remains a critical challenge. This study develops a strategic roadmap by adapting lessons from China's three-decade market evolution, informed by
Karamy Saeed
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Moderate is the New Black: Shifts and Intersections in Saudi Arabia's Domestic and Foreign Policy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is undergoing a period of intense changes. Its current stage of transformation has been led by Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) since 2015, seeking to turn the Kingdom into a story of successful governance and one of the leading powers in the Middle East. In hardly understood yet very consequential ways, KSA's
Javier Bordón +1 more
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Proxy war: The Anglo-Egyptian confrontation in South Arabia, 1955–1964
Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политикаIn the history of rivalry between regional and extra-regional players in South Arabia, the relationship between the United Kingdom and Egypt holds a special place.
V. P. Rumyantsev
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Journal of High Institute of Public HealthBackground: The Integrated Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) system facilitates detection, monitoring and the effective response to public health threats.
Basem F. Abdel-Aziz +3 more
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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