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Hypocrisy & Norm Enforcement: US Responses to Chemical Weapons Allegations against Iraq and Syria 虚伪与规范执行：美国对伊拉克和叙利亚化学武器指控的回应

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2226886

M. Samiei, J. Webster

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Imperialism and Neoliberal Redeployment in Post-uprising Tunisia 帝国主义与新自由主义在起义后突尼斯的重新部署

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2199484

M. Jouili

引用次数: 1

The ‘War on Terror’ as Primitive Accumulation in Tunisia: US-Led Imperialism and the Post-2010-2011 Revolt/Security Conjuncture 作为突尼斯原始积累的“反恐战争”：美国领导的帝国主义和2010-2011年后的起义/安全伪装

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2199481

Corinna Mullin

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China against US Imperialism in the Arabian Sea: The Case of Oman 中国在阿拉伯海反对美帝国主义:以阿曼为例

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2198668

Linda Matar, A. Kadri

引用次数: 1

Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic 大马士革炮战：美国对阿拉伯叙利亚共和国的战争

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2199487

Patrick Donovan Higgins

引用次数: 1

Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation? 消除与殖民主义的逻辑:非殖民化还是民族解放?

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-03-23 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2191401

Max Ajl

引用次数: 2

The Iranian-American Intelligentsia in U.S. Foreign Affairs: Ahistoricism, Anti-Structuralism, and the Production of Idealism 美国外交中的伊朗裔美国知识分子：超历史主义、反结构主义与理想主义的产生

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-25 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2182053

Nina Farnia

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The Imperialist Question: A Sociological Approach 帝国主义问题:一种社会学方法

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2176943

Matteo Capasso, A. Kadri

引用次数: 3

Intergenerational Transmission of Social Movement Activism in Bahrain 巴林社会运动激进主义的代际传递

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2168378

Luke G G Bhatia

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The European Union’s Policies in Historic Palestine: Two-Step Securitisation, Differentiation and Its Discontents 欧盟对历史性巴勒斯坦的政策:两步证券化、分化及其不满

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Middle East Critique Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2023.2169979

Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal

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