Hichem Karoui

41 Indicators of Development

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A public access codebook for the international development research community

Arno TAUSCH

Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Innsbruck University, Austria

E-mail: Arno.Tausch@uibk.ac.at

Box 1: The independent variables

% women in government, all levels is one of the UNDP’s long-term lead indicators of the institutionalization of political feminism. We time-lagged the variable and measured [...]

Will They Talk?

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By Hichem Karoui July 17, 2010 The Gulf Today , July 17, 2010

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 [...]

Look at corporations while sanctioning Iran

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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 ... [...]

The shipwreck of the Maghreb Union

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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... [...]

Diverse approaches in economic anthropology: Some reflections

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Suguna Pathy

Department of Sociology, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat-395007, India.

E-mail:sugunapathy@gmail.com.

Anthropology in general has colonial roots and these influences are still in existence. British colonial policy in Africa and Asia began to change in the 1930s thus, it was suddenly decided to “develop” the colonies. This paper is aimed at objectively [...]

From Estrangement to Engagement: U.S. – India Relations since May 1998

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Strobe Talbott President, The Brookings Institution- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001)

Occasional Paper Number 23, February 2005; Center for the Advanced Study of India

(…)Strobe Talbott was President Clinton’s “point man” in the intensive talks between India and Pakistan in the two and a half years that followed the nuclear tests you will [...]

India’s New Entrepreneurial Classes:

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The High Growth Economy and Why it is Sustainable.

Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal

Founder, Chairman, and Group Managing, Director, Bharti Enterprises /// Center for the Advanced Study of India- Occasional Paper No. 25, February 2006.

Introduction by Dr. Francine R. Frankel (Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India) I am Francine Frankel, director [...]

Oil spill or Bush heavy legacy?

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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 [...]

Europe is failing to shape the global governance debate

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Europe’s World ( Europe-wide policy journal) Summer 2010 by Pedro Solbes / Richard Youngs

The EU’s enthusiasm for reshaping global governance has dwindled, and now looks more like indifference. Pedro Solbes and Richard Youngs warn that the EU not only risks the debate being shaped elsewhere but may even find itself left out [...]

How to revitalise democracy assistance: Recipients’views

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By Richard Youngs*

FRIDE

Democracy assistance needs to be re-energised. The author lays out the main concerns of civil society organisations in states on the receiving end of democracy support and offers recommendations on how to improve donor strategies and design more demand-led policies.

This working paper presents the conclusions of the [...]