Search Results for Middle East and North Africa

... struggles of the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This article aims to stimulate more academic and public debates about fascism in MENA. Critically investigating the history of several waves of nationalism and their affinity with the first historical rise of fascism could enable us...

..., Thailand, Turkey, Brazil, Venezuela and the Himalayan region. IOO The Human Resources Research Office (HumRRO) underwrote projects on modernization, elite studies, and the destabilizing effects of sociopolitical change from Latin America to the Middle East and North Africa. RAND continued to fund research...

... critique of colonialism and imperialism is totalizing, the book focuses mostly on Africa, with country case material on Egypt, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria, rather than the rest of the world. In fact, chapter one, "Framing poverty," begins with a first sentence on "MENA" (Middle East North Africa), using...

... types of thought. I find these distinctions lleuristic devices that can provide an economical framing of thought. Finally, Katsiaficas takes us to North Africa, whicll has for too long been associated with the Middle East. We are introduced to the theories of Ibn Khaldun as an original theorist...

... expenditures, everything else equal, tend to decline in percentage terms. 23 The next section attempts to identify the differential budgetary effect in the Middle East and North Africa/Mediterranean. That is, do sub-groups of countries tend to respond differently and selectively in cutting economic or social...

... challenging US policy in Central America or Southern Africa can often find allies among liberals in Congress or Democratic presidential hopefuls, sympathetic voices from these quarters are rare regarding US Middle East policy. Those wanting change in US foreign policy towards the Middle East are thereby...

... had blamed the United States for not putting enough pressure on Israel to push the peace process forward. The Arab disillusionment was clearly reflected in the refusal by Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority, and other states to attend the Middle East North Africa (MENA) conference...

..., by Mohamed Zayani, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 304 pp., $27.95 (Paperback), ISBN 9780190239770 The Arab Spring movements that rolled across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region were seen by many outsiders as beginning in 2011, as if they popped up from out of nowhere. These two books...

... and West Asia/North Africa. Shultz was particularly exercised by the "cancer, right here in our land mass," which was openly renewing the goals of Hitler's Mein Kampf, he informed Congress. The President declared a national emergency, renewed annually, because "the policies and actions of the Government...

... Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). 478 Book Reviews bloodshed. Certainly his calls for diplomacy respectful of international law, reconciliation based on a resource redistribution Marshall Plan for the Middle East...

... a population from the oppression of Saddam Hussein has arguably produced more deaths and tragedy in the Middle East than had the world not intervened. The regional instability gave rise to Daesh or ISIS across the region, including in Syria. Moreover, in many cases, the causes of the original humanitarian...

... from an 1 Eldridge Cleaver, interview with the author, Miami, FL (January 20 and February II, 1996). 0739-3148/99/020217-14 © 1999 Caucus for a New Political Science 218 Ruth Reitan oppressed nation; Cuba bravely fought for the liberation from colonialism in Africa; the regime offered solidarity...

... from Asia to Africa to the Middle East and Latin America. Not only was the national and increasingly global system capitalism too powerful to be overcome and too inventive to be overwhelmed by temporary setbacks, but efforts to build post-capitalist or partially socialist societies suffered from some...

... one that for some time had been forgotten in the fanfare of the Soviet-American encounter. Now with the East-West dispute dying, the ubiquitous North-South conflict over exploiting the Third World stood more clearly revealed. The New World Order is but the Old World Order exposed, for the real...

... and just under 20 per cent two years after that. The magnitude of these shifts in aggregate world trade was unprecedented in the post-World War II era. These trends were even more pronounced with regard to the Middle East and North Africa. Countries in this particular region contributed almost 13 per cent...

... mobilization and state accommodation and in this regard bridge the North-South divide. Indeed, post-apartheid South Africa has even borrowed aspects of the German model of labor rights. Against the emphasis of Marshall, Huber and Stephens, this article argues that these labor gains derived from workers...

... (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999). 56Euchner, Nobody Turn Me Around, p. 121. 57See Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), pp. 23-25. 58Bryant, The Bystander, p. 8, and afterward. See...

...), p. 223. 22 Francis Younghusband, India and Tibet: A History of the Relations which have Subsisted betzveen the Tzvo Countries fronz the Thne of Warren Hastings to 1910; zvith a Particular Account of the Mission to Lhasa of 1904 (London: John Murray, 1910), p. 321. 23 "History of the Middle East...

... by supporting a two-state solution in the Middle East. Invoking Arendt's name as Jewish lesbians, for Jones, amplifies Arendt's idea ofthe"conscious pariah" whose political resistance "is not a simple demand for "inclusion;' but a complex demand made against exclusivity per se as an unethical principle...

... on the Mexican Army calling the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) a "death sentence for indigenous people."2 People were bewildered at the organizational capacity of Indian people. For a long time anthropologists who had been working in Chiapas for years were stunned. The Zapatistas were not just...