Browsing by Subject "Middle East"
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Ali Yaycioglu, Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016)
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Arguing Justice in Yemen’s Civil War: A Researcher’s Notebook
(2019-04-08)This research project explores the question of how and which stories nations and people construct about justice in international relations through the case study of the conflict in Yemen. The war in Yemen has raged since ... -
Brucellosis in low-income and middle-income countries.
(Curr Opin Infect Dis, 2013-10)PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Human brucellosis is a neglected, underrecognized infection of widespread geographic distribution. It causes acute febrile illness and a potentially debilitating chronic infection in humans, and livestock ... -
Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile
(2017)Iraqi academics have had a pivotal role in shaping and building Iraqi society, identity, and national structures, since the country’s independence from British colonial rule. Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, ... -
Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2014-06-12)In the pre-modern Middle East the closest thing to an autonomous private organization was the Islamic waqf. This non-state institution inhibited political participation, collective action, and rule of law, among other indicators ... -
Selling America: U.S. Public Diplomacy Programs in the Middle East and South Asia in a Post 9/11 Environment
(2009-12-04)Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, foreign policy experts and U.S. government officials have emphasized the importance of public diplomacy in combating terrorism and ensuring national security. In the current ... -
The Influence of Democracy Aid on the Arab Spring Protests: Did Western Democracy Assistance Help Nations Respond Positively to the Protests?
(2013-04-01)The unprecedented Arab Spring crisis that erupted in late 2010 and spread rapidly across the Middle East and North Africa is history in the making. As the Arab Spring progresses, it has become clear that some nations have ... -
The Politics of Indebtedness: The Dialectic of State Violence and Benevolence in Turkey
(2017)This dissertation examines the interplay between sovereignty and governmentality in the domain of welfare provision in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast through the analytic of debt.The dissertation shows that debt lies at the ... -
The Weight of Hope: Independent Music Production Under Authoritarianism in Egypt
(2018)This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the independent music scene in Cairo, in which music producers and cultural entrepreneurs who came of age during the 2011 revolution and 2013 counterrevolution hope to constitute ... -
“Three Tentacles of Terror”: Israeli Securitization after the Arab Spring
(2016-04-25)Securitization theory, while designed to describe the politics surrounding extra-military threats to a nation, has rarely been used as a frame to analyze countries that exist in a state of deep and permanent securitization. ...
