Archive for Working Papers
Which way to Tehran?
Pre-emptive air strike, cumulative diplomacy, technical isolation and the Iranian nuclear crises Henry U. Ufomba and Robert O. Dode The Journal of Public Administration and Policy Research (JPAPR) May 2010 The issue of nuclear proliferation and its impact on the security of humanity remains the critical focus of policies and scholarships on international security since [...]
Introduction: Collective Memories of Colonial Violence
Laurent Licata, Chiara Volpato International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Vol 4, No 1 (2010) Abstract Colonialism, that Loomba calls “the most complex and traumatic relationship in human history” (2005, 8), has left its mark on international relations, social relationships within nations, and the ideologies and imaginaries of virtually all the peoples of the world. Understanding [...]
Egypt within the Framework of the Global Financial Crisis:
Impact, Response and Way Forward Assem Reda Abu Hatab (Suez Canal University, Egypt) The International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies (IJEMS), Vol.II, 2009, n°1 i n t h e second ha l f of 2 0 0 8, the world economy went through a serious financial upheaval that sparked off in the United States and spread [...]
Education Levels and Household Location Preferences: A Case Study of Turkey
Current Research Journal of Social Sciences 2(3): 174-180, 2010 Maxwell Scientific Organization, Nüket Kirci Çevik, Emel Kuruolu and Ôenay Üçdogruk Department of Econometrics, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey Abstract: Metropolitan cities are attractive household [...]
Global Democracy Promotion:
Seven Lessons for the New Administration David Price The Washington Quarterly : 32:1 pp. 159-170 A professed commitment to worldwide democracy promotion has been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for many years and was given a distinctive emphasis by the outgoing administration. President George W. Bush calls it ‘‘the urgent requirement of our nation’s security,and the calling of our time.’’ Promoting democracy,however, is not merely a matter of advocacy via an international megaphone. Policies of the Bush administration have led many to question the methods used to promote democracy or even the goal itself. Despite such criticism,much of it warranted, democracy promotion remains a central plank of U.S. foreign policy, an expression of U.S. values,and a tool that can be used to pursue the strategic interests of the United States. It is critically important, therefore, to learn from the mistakes of the past seven years and to rethink and refine the theory and practice of democracy promotion (…) Continue reading: Download the full paper
The Totalitarianism of Jihadist Islamism and its Challenge to Europe and to Islam
BASSAM TIBI University of Goettingen, Cornell University This article highlights aspects of Islamism ignored in much conventional political science by applying to it a composite conceptual framework made up of Hannah Arendt’s concept of totalitarianism as an ideology, movement and system of rule; political religion conceptualised both as a cultural system and as an ideology; the growing ‘culturation’ and ‘religionisation’ of politics; and the politicisation of Islam. When applied to Islamism this approach highlights the fact that its use of terrorism is one aspect of a much broader reaction to the threat of Islam society’s radical secularisation under the impact of the universalisation of western values. At its core lies an imagined umma community – postulated as an alternative model of civilisation to one offered by ‘the West’ – that claims global hegemony for its values. The analysis stresses that Islamism is not to be equated with Islam, or treated as a monolith, but rather as a religiously and culturally diversified phenomenon whose common denominator is adherence to din-wa-daula, i.e. the unity of Islamic religious principles as the legitimation of a totalitarian government. As a transnational force waging an irregular war fuelled by a fundamentalist interpretation of religion, it is [...]
L’Etat palestinien en question
Denis BAUCHARD Note de l’Ifri, Paris, mars 2010 La marche vers un État palestinien est longue et ardue, même si, sur le plan juridique, la création de deux Etats, l’un juif, l’autre arabe, a été prévue dès le plan de partage adopté par le Conseil de sécurité le 29 novembre 1947. L’application de ce texte fut “suspendue” et, de fait, jamais mise en œuvre, compte tenu de l’évolution des faits et de la guerre israélo-arabe qui a éclaté en 1948. Lire en PDF: L’Etat palestinien en question
