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Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l'ère de la mondialisation

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 [...]

The Middle East as a U.S. Predicament

All you need to know about The Bush II Years (2000-2008) is here:
The book  is now available on Amazon

Volume I: Elites and Concepts
Volume II: Networks

Author: Hichem Karoui

With a preface by: Arno Tausch

Secularism And Liberal Thought In The Arab And Islamic World

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 [...]

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf

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 dimensions and connections. Joseph Maila contested the idea that 9/11 responded [...]

EXILE (1)

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 [...]

Global Trends in Gulf and Middle East Population Evolution

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, and sometimes troubled, countries in the region will experience explosive population growth. Population [...]

OIL AND SECURITY: Will Muslim Nations Control the World Oil Market?

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 than 75% of U.S. oil imports from the Middle East by 2025. With America on the [...]

Some problems of social and political changes

by Hichem Karoui
(Wednesday, May 18, 2005)
MMN

“…the United States must confront risks on a governmental level, helping its regional partners secure themselves against terrorist-generated instability, and at a popular level to ensure that nationals in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, or other states in the region do not join terrorist groups or provide them with financial [...]

We Got Him, the war trophy that is

by Hichem Karoui
(Thursday, December 18, 2003) MMN

“Some people hate Saddam and his regime. Yet, they don’t like America. They don’t believe that the Americans are doing them any good in overstaying the collapse of the Baath regime and the capture of Saddam. Some of them would even be more willing to take arms against the [...]

Forum For The Future: Why Sink It In The Past ?

by Hichem Karoui
(Friday, September 24, 2004)
MMN

“What we know is that neither Democracy nor economic growth are the Holy Spirit’s gifts. They cannot be parachuted either. To be successful, any social, political, economical reforms have to be conduced through deep structural changes not by high decrees.”

A meeting attended by more than 20 G-8 and Broader Middle [...]

Spies and / or Victims

by Hichem Karoui
(Thursday, September 2, 2004)
MMN

“Either some party is fooling the others, or they are, all of them, fooling each other.”

The case of Lawrence A. Franklin, the Pentagon’s official, recently accused of espionage for the account of Israel, necessarily brings to our minds the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American intelligence analyst, who in 1985 [...]

What does America want?

by Hichem Karoui
(Saturday, August 28, 2004)
MMN

“Prior to the invasion, some American theorists and writers stood to argue and try to convince the whole world of the idea that Democracy was looming at the Iraqi horizon, so that this country was going to be a great model for all the Arab states.”

Maybe it is not easy [...]