Agricultural lands are vital to food security, which is imperative to the “no global hunger” objective of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Global food security is at risk from climatic change related increased...
The Information Age is in full swing and its impact is upon on us. The rapid dissemination of information is rocking the power structure of the world in a way we have never seen before. Geoinformation thus emerges as a new...
For more information on the published version, visit Air University's Website., This article is a preliminary attempt to situate Ennahda's economic philosophy within a broader universe of Islamic or Islamist thought on economic...
State capitalism, as adopted by the People’s Republic of China, represents a growing threat to the United States’ primacy in the international system. The Beijing Consensus, as it has been termed, represents a direct assault on...
In the autumn of 2017, two professors and 13 undergraduate students from Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania, US) engaged in 3 weeks of field research in Nepal. The students were assigned to one of four teams. Each was...
Published as:Mitchell, Kristine. Does European Identification Increase Support for Further Economic Integration? Journal of European Integration 36, no. 6 (2014): 601-618....
Published as:Mitchell, Kristine. The European Trade Union Confederation at 40: Integration and Diversity in the European Labor Movement.Labor History 55, no. 4 (2014): 403-426....
Zhou Enlai was not referring to the effects of the French Revolution of 1789 when he delivered his famous verdict in 1972 that it was too early to say, but to the May 1968 uprising in France. Today we are at an only slightly...
Marshall, Emily C., James W. Saunoris, and T. Daniel Woodbury. The Flypaper Sticks Even When Aid Travels Overseas. Public Finance Review 49, no. 5 (2021): 717-753....
How are nationality and sexuality related? What is gained and what is lost when sexuality is framed in terms of identity politics, and what is the role of the nation-state in this process? Though nationality is one of many...
This research examines Georgia’s interest in European Union and NATO membership and evaluates potential routes for ensuring progress and security while reducing Russia’s residual post-Soviet influence. While much available...
This paper explores the cultural construction – or “imagination” – of Russian character in the United States through an investigation of popular American literature, films, TV shows, photographs, magazine articles, speeches,...
Edward Webb. Holding Back The Flood: Regimes of Censorship in the Middle East & North Africa in Comparative Perspective, in Covering the Arab Spring: Middle East in the Media – the Media in the Middle East, ed. Ehab Galal...
The US is the dominant power in the Middle East. Between 1946 and 1991, the US gradually became the dominant power in the region to defend against Soviet influence, maintain regional stability, and ensure the flow of oil from...
Webb, Edward. Islamic Social Democracy? Ennahda's Approach to Economic Development in Tunisia. In Religious Activism in the Global Economy: Promoting, Reforming, or Resisting Neoliberal Globalization, edited by Sabine...
Since 1991 Kazakhstan has sought national security through economic growth and energy security fostered on its immense wealth of oil, natural gas, and other natural resources. Simultaneously Kazakhstan seeks to position itself...
This paper analyzes one of the New York Police Department’s (“NYPD”) signature international endeavors: the International Liaison Program (“ILP”). It focuses on the political and legal bases for creating and maintaining the...
On January 1, 2009, the fears of many European policymakers were confirmed. After a payment dispute could not be resolved, Russia shut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine, leading to widespread gas disruptions across Europe....
This book examines the mass media systems of Egypt and Tunisia under the pre-uprising regimes, with a focus on the last decade of the Mubarak and Ben Ali periods, as well as on how media are adapting to the political...
As a result of global warming and melting of the icecaps, Greenland has gained access to new mineral reserves, which potentially provide a means of long-term economic growth. The principles of globalization and commercial...
The Turkish Republic that emerged from the collapsing Ottoman Empire offers an instructive example of a self-conscious deployment of history by political elites to build a nation fitting the new state. The purpose of official...
The Erasmus programme for university student exchange was developed, in part, to foster European identity among its participants, who complete a short-term sojourn studying in another European country. However, two previous...
Given current events in Eastern Europe (the Ukraine Conflict) and the Middle East (the Syria Conflict), as well as recent aggressive foreign policy trends towards Latin American countries, Russian interventionism can be better...
This paper focuses on governmental use of the idea of “tolerance” (based on Brown 2009) when talking about Muslim minorities after nationally traumatic events. It explores the cases of the U.S. after 9/11 and the UK after 7/7....
From its inception, the Erasmus student exchange programme has been promoted by the European Commission as a “civic experience” that instils or enhances a European consciousness among participants. Recent scholarship on...
The Suez Crisis of 1956 significantly altered transatlantic security. The declining powers of Britain and France were exposed by the United States, causing enduring and troublesome consequences for the future of the North...
This research analyzes the role of nationalism in Turkey’s foreign policy toward Russia from the establishment of the Republic of Turkey until the present. Existing research examines the role of nationalism in Turkish foreign...
"In the current era, initiatives that involve cross-sector collaboration—collaboration among participants representing government, military, for-profit, non-profit, citizen groups, and intergovernmental organizations—to tackle...
Women in Iraq had more freedom and rights under the Baath Regime than they do in the post-2003 Iraqi state. This research offers an analysis of women’s rights from the beginning of the Baath regime, through the American...
For more information on the published version, visit Brill's Website., An inquiry in historical sociology using textual interpretation of educational curricular documents to analyze the role assigned to Islam in the official...