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Cultural diplomacy and the reconfiguration of soft power: Evidence from Morocco 文化外交与软实力重构——来自摩洛哥的证据

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2022-02-21 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2022.2033513

Andreas M. Wüst, Katharina Nicolai

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引用次数: 1

Complex effects of international relations 国际关系的复杂影响

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2022.2038860

B. Korany

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China in the Southern Mediterranean: Integrating the Greater Maghreb in the new silk road 地中海南部的中国：将大马格里布融入新丝绸之路

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2022.2035137

Y. Zoubir

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Who votes after a coup? Theory and evidence from Egypt 政变后谁投票？埃及的理论和证据

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2022-02-12 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2022.2033512

Elizabeth R. Nugent, S. Brooke

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Political narratives in the Middle East and North Africa. Conceptions of order and perceptions of instability 中东和北非的政治叙事。秩序观念和对不稳定的认知

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2022.2038864

E. Rózsa

{"title":"Political narratives in the Middle East and North Africa. Conceptions of order and perceptions of instability","authors":"E. Rózsa","doi":"10.1080/13629395.2022.2038864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2022.2038864","url":null,"abstract":"emphasizing the class dimension – two strands that have rarely been connected in the analysis of Lebanon. The volume also has the merit of providing a detailed and timely analysis of the main alliances between Lebanon’s political parties and how they have been re-arranged especially in some important debates that have informed political life – most importantly, regarding elections and election law. But not only that: The volume offers insight into the political forces in the field and the intraand inter-sectarian conflicts by connecting them with the external alliances that have forged and influenced them. This analysis explains some apparent ‘oddities’ of Lebanese political life, of which the alliance between the Shiite Hizballah and the Christian Free Patriotic Movement is the most evident. Between the lines, however, the analysis also explains the Lebanese political elites’ ability to increase the pressure almost to breaking point. Through a skilful and wise use of sectarian language to mobilize and demobilize their sectarian members, Lebanese politicians have created a short circuit that continues to hold Lebanese democracy hostage to this day. Although the most recent events (the protests of October 2019, the Eurobond default of March 2020 and the explosion at the port of Beirut on 4 August 2020) seem to have restarted some processes that had been silenced or dormant in previous years, the difficulties of the political parties to converge on a new government suggests that Assi’s argument is, sadly still valid.","PeriodicalId":46666,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Politics","volume":"28 1","pages":"679 - 681"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43181812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Seeing the future through a rear-view mirror: On the politics of revitalizing secular bio-icons in the Middle East 透过后视镜看未来:中东世俗生物符号复兴的政治

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2022-01-20 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2022.2028495

Christine Crone, Frederik Carl Windfeld, A. Warrington

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Preaching and ruling: The Jordanian muslim brotherhood post Arab uprisings 布道和统治:阿拉伯起义后的约旦穆斯林兄弟会

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2020.1748471

Lamis El Muhtaseb

引用次数: 2

Civil society, insecurity and Arab support for normalization with Israel: Contextualizing the Abraham Accords 公民社会、不安全和阿拉伯国家对与以色列关系正常化的支持:《亚伯拉罕协定》的背景

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2021-12-27 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2021.2008669

Lindsay J. Benstead

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Spatial clustering of fighting during civil wars: insights from Syria 内战期间战斗的空间集群：来自叙利亚的见解

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2021-12-07 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2021.2010385

F. Lawson

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Religion, identity, and power: Turkey and the Balkans in the twenty-first century 宗教、身份与权力:21世纪的土耳其与巴尔干半岛

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Mediterranean Politics Pub Date : 2021-11-28 DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2021.2009251

Idlir Lika

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