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 Just a few days before Netanyahu’s last visit to the White House, the Washington Post (June 25) run a story about Shimon Peres urging the United States and other world powers to engage with Hamas in order to persuade the hardliner group to renounce violence and prepare for peace with Israel. As the Obama administration was preparing to receive the Israeli Prime Minister, the influential magazine Foreign Policy (July 4) run an opinion by Michele Dunne (Editor of Carnegie’s Arab Reform Bulletin), in which she suggests that if Washington does not need at this point to engage directly Hamas, it can do it indirectly. Dunne contends that the only way out of the stalemate is to encourage the reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas instead of impeding it, and to make of it the basis to “broker a power-sharing arrangement,” without which any further negotiations about an Israeli-Palestinian peace would be pipedream. Continue reading Will They Talk?
By Hichem Karoui The Gulf Today, July 10, 2010 Iran’s nuclear ambitions will not ease the country’s tense relationships with the international community, since the UN and the Western powers seem determined to follow through with sanctions. Nor … [...]
By Hichem Karoui The Gulf Today, July 03, 2010 Several Western and Arab observers share the views concerning the current evolution in the region of North Africa, especially regarding the connection between Islam and the problems of political and econom… [...]
By Hichem Karoui
The Gulf Today (June 26, 2010)
What hindered President Obama from giving heed to the peace promises he had pledged in his famous Cairo speech? Is it the oil spill or the Bush legacy? Maybe both?
It is normal that the “oil spill” takes much of President Obama’s attention and time while the Middle East slips steadily into more violence. For does it matter that the last Pew Survey noticed the same rates of popularity for Obama in the world, insofar as in his own country the president is increasingly criticised by the right? Nor his reduced popularity among the Muslim nations (according to the same survey) would change anything in the situation, since the next elections will happen in the USA, and not abroad. Continue reading Oil spill or Bush heavy legacy?
La pertinence continue du modèle de la dépendance quantitative Modèle de (Bornschier)
Par :
Arno TAUSCH[1] Professeur adjoint de sciences politiques à l’université d’Innsbruck, Autriche
E-mail: Arno.Tausch @ uibk.ac.at
Almas HESHMATI, Professeur d’économie, College of Engineering, TEMEP, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shilim-dong, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul, 151-742 Seoul, South Korea,Email: heshmati@snu.ac.kr
Hichem KAROUI, Docteur en sociologie, Sorbonne, Paris
Email : info@hichemkaroui.com
Soumis à Revue Tiers Monde (Paris)
3. La dépendance sur les MNC comme clé d’analyse des transformations contemporaines
Une analyse scientométrique de la vaste littérature de recherche empirique concernée par la dépendance dans les grandes revues internationales de sciences sociales, révèle que jusqu’au 4 Juillet 2009, 328 grandes études internationales ont cité l’analyse empirique très avancée de Galtung sur la dépendance (1971), qui lie la dépendance mesurée par partenaire commercial de la concentration et la concentration des produits d’exportation à l’inégalité de répartition des revenus. Soixante-quatorze autres grandes études internationales ont été fondées sur l’essai Sunkel (1973), qui est plus directement lié à la notion de pénétration des MNC que l’Essai Galtung (1971). Galtung (1971) et Sunkel (1973), à leur tour doivent être considérés comme les auteurs des essais catalyseurs pour les deux études pionnières sur la dépendance quantitative, écrits par Chase Dunn (1975) [qui fut à son tour suivi par 213 études], et Rubinson (1976) [qui à ce jour, a donné suite à 170 études dans les grandes revues de sciences sociales du monde]. Bornschier / Chase-Dunn / Rubinson, bâtissant sur Chase-Dunn (1975), et Rubinson (1978), donnèrent plus tard l’étude la plus importante dans le domaine, en systématisant la recherche basée sur le concept de la pénétration des MNC. Cet essai initialise 185 études suivantes, tandis que Bornschier / Ballmer-Cao, se consacrent à la question de l’inégalité économique comme une conséquence de la pénétration des MNC, donnèrent suite à 74 autres études.[2] Continue reading Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l’ère de la mondialisation
All you need to know about The Bush II Years (2000-2008) is here:
Volume I: Elites and Concepts
Volume II: Networks
Author: Hichem Karoui
With a preface by: Arno Tausch Continue reading The Middle East as a U.S. Predicament
All you need to know about The Bush II Years (2000-2008) is here: Buy Now Volume I: Elites and Concepts Volume II: Networks Author: Hichem Karoui With a preface by: Arno Tausch ANTHEM PRESS – London- New York- Delhi Editorial Reviews Review ‘A g… [...]
Islam as a Western Tradition
By : Hichem Karoui
Whereas the threat to freedom from radical Islamism has never been so high, there is no much talk today about “Progressive Muslims”, “Liberal Muslims”, “Secular Muslims”, and the like. In the USA, though, such movements aiming at reconsidering the positive values of the Islamic culture in the light of modernity, have stemmed out of the mess of 9/11 and the concerns about the future of the community. Yet, in the Arab and Islamic world, these trends have been there since more than a century.
- Some liberal Muslims favor the idea of modern secular democracy with separation between the state and the religion , and thus oppose Islam as a political movement.
- The existence or applicability of Islamic law (Shari’a) is questioned by many liberals. Their argument often involves variants of the Mu’tazili theory that the Qur’an is created by God for the particular circumstances of the early Muslim community, and reason must be used to apply it to new contexts.
- Tolerance is another key tenet of Liberal Muslims, who are generally more open to interfaith dialog and conflict resolution with such communities as the Jews, Christians, Hindus, and the numerous factions within Islam.
Continue reading Secularism And Liberal Thought In The Arab And Islamic World
Hichem Karoui : U.S. Foreign Policy In The Gulf After September 11 The effect on US-GCC relations Saudi Arabia in the focus In a book published in Paris in 2003, two important French scholars have undertaken to discuss the issue of 9/11 in its varied d… [...]
Fiction
by: Hichem Karoui 
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Now that everything is over or nearly over, I can say that it was not bad at all. If I had to put it back from the start, I will certainly do it again, without great changes. On the whole, I am almost satisfied. With the days, the weeks, the months and the years going by, I am growing older and wiser as it seems to me. As I take the seventy-three turn and look backward, I have the impression – perhaps a deceiving one- that I have not entirely missed my life, after all. The ways of the providence are really unfathomable. When I was a youngster, I craved to be an artist – a painter or a sculptor, perhaps even an architect. I would have given anything to enter the Beaux-arts in Paris. I was completely fascinated by the lives and works of my great contemporaries, not to speak of the titans of the previous centuries. I wanted to be an artist and wished nothing more than to obtain a scholarship for the Beaux Arts; but fate intended it otherwise. A scholarship was accorded to me, but to study artillery…far from Paris. Thus, I was put on the way that led me, after a long plight, to the post I was occupying before I arrived here, which is considered to be the highest not only in my country, but anywhere in the world, since I was actually President of the Republic.
I have ruled my country during twenty years. When I think about it now, I find that it was a very short period. I did not even feel it elapsing. It was like a dream or a wink. And today, sitting in my long-chair on the balcony of this nice villa overlooking the river, I am able to see my life unfolding before my eyes like a movie, wherein I have been alternately the hero and the walker-on, the hangman and the victim, the film maker manipulating the strings, directing, advising, ordering, and supervising the comedians and the technicians, and the great star playing the paramount role before the cameras. Continue reading EXILE (1)
By: Hichem Karoui Abstract: The Middle East and North Africa are a long-term demographic nightmare. The US Census Bureau estimates that the Middle East is a region where the population will nearly double between now and 2030.Some of the most important,… [...]
By : Hichem Karoui In His State Of The Union Address, President Bush outlined the “Advanced Energy Initiative to help break America’s dependence on foreign sources of energy”. The President has set a national goal of replacing more th… [...]
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