... an adverse effect on their business in the near future n The UAE is the most favoured destination in theMiddleEast For most survey respondents, expansion plans centre onthe wealthy Gulf states, ... transparency in the region However, there are major differences in the way that executives from different regions view the prospects for democracy in theMiddleEast and the likely implications for their ... respondents rate as “poor” For Asian firms, the main points of concern beyond political uncertainty regarding theMiddleEast are the region’s economic growth prospects and the clarity and consistency...
... in theMiddleEastThe Europeans have a responsibility to help the United States stabilize the region At the same time, the United States lacks a grand strategy for theMiddleEast However, the ... Britain during the days of the Ottoman empire, the United States has convinced the governments of the region that it is the only solution to the region’s problem At the same time, there is increasing ... negotiations Relations with the EU have been further complicated by the French and Dutch rejection of the EU constitution The French and Dutch votes made clear that there is considerable popular discontent...
... organization It also underscores the importance of the way in which the United States conditions the regional context in the broader MiddleEast for its foreign-policy initiatives and pursues the battle ... international and regional contexts for the war on Binladenism that would be more conducive to securing sustained international and regional cooperation THE GLOBAL CONTEXT Understanding the global context ... Algeria, with 30 million, will have a decided impact not only ontheMiddleEast s overall developmental health, but onthe progress of economic globalization And in the same fashion, the failure of...
... recognize the continuing importance of the oil and gas resources of theMiddleEast to the U.S and the world Even if significant constraints are imposed onthe use of carbon, the International ... Iraq, U.S fortunes in the region, and the politics and stability of theMiddleEast They are now the responsibility of the Obama administration, which inherited the Iraq conflict from its predecessor, ... Israel and the United States as the biggest threats in theMiddle East. 11 There are two distinct factors that threaten to divert Obama’s attention from theMiddleEast One is the magnitude of the issues...
... upon in setting strategies to meet the SRH needs of young people CONVENTION ONTHE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, the Convention onthe ... region with secular laws governing their family codes CONVENTION ONTHE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD Adopted in 1989, the Convention onthe Rights of the Child (CRC) is a legally binding international ... Progress: The Global Impact of the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (Washington, DC: ICRW, 2010) 4UNIFEM, 30 Years: United Nations Conventions onthe Elimination...
... transformation of the economy—especially in terms of exports—such as the one witnessed in high-growth East Asia or in Eastern Europe The ongoing growth slowdown in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation ... develo pment in the regio n The common problem boils down to the role of the state and its institutions in various areas of the business environment The report goes beyond the laws and the regulatory ... of the region, this could be the tax authority, the customs, or the land administration In others it could be the licensing and inspection agencies These Reforms Entail the Following Actions...
... POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF THEMIDDLEEAST A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF THEMIDDLEEAST David Seddon FIRST EDITION LONDON AND NEW YORK First Edition 2004 Europa Publications Haines ... under the control of the FLN For the next 27 years, until 1989, the FLN was the only political party in Algeria The February 1989 amendments to the Constitution permitted the formation of other ... Front) was poised to win the second round of the national elections, but the army intervened to prevent the party from taking power, plunging A political and economic dictionary of themiddle east...
... supervised the preparation of the report The report belongs to the MENA Development Reports series, which is coordinated by the Office of the Chief Economist for theMiddleEast and North Africa Region ... bulge, and the growing financial constraints on expanding education? If the answer to the first question is that the education systems in the region have not made optimal contributions to development ... the level of educational attainment, there continues to be an “education gap” with other regions, in absolute terms In addition, new challenges are onthe horizon First, and most important, the...
... MiddleEast After the Iraq War cern among Arab states that Iran can more easily maneuver in the core of theMiddle East, from Lebanon to Gaza The ousting of the Iraqi leader created the perception ... if consensus on confrontation existed among Arab states, there is currently no viable Arab state “balancer” to Iran The result is that the most viable state powers in the region are now non-Arab: ... elsewhere The net effect has been the increased willingness of traditional U.S Arab allies to consider patronage from xiv The Iraq Effect: TheMiddleEast After the Iraq War other extraregional powers—most...
... have a strong impact onthe making of these constitutions The debate onthe constitutional implications of Islam contributed to the long delay in the making of the 1956 Constitution of the Islamic ... theTurkish constitutional court as one of the major institutions guarding the Kemalist, secularist foundations of the regime, and offers a concise comparison at the end with the same function ... exceptionalism of Islam, onthe cognitive map of the scholarly community I hope the reader will be led to the conclusion that the current constitutional crisis in theMiddleEast deserves the same...
... amount of money Data are from the World Bank, 2002 World Development Indicators United Nations, World Population Projections: The 2000 Revision (2001); United Nations, World Population Monitoring ... gross national income converted to “international” dollars using a purchasing power parity conversion factor International dollars indicate the amount of goods and services one could buy in the United ... couples with the best chance of having a healthy infant United Nations, “Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,” paragraph 7.2, accessed online at www.iisd.ca/linkages/Cairo/program/p07002.html,...
... for glass formation versus the year of discovery of the corresponding alloy Figure 2.1 The critical casting thickness for the glass formation as a function of the year the corresponding alloy has ... change is not constant throughout the cooling process The fact that the atomic motion almost stops at the glass transition-except for thermal vibrations explains some observations The atomic structure, ... than the Rc crystallization is indicated by an exothermic peak The onset temperature for crystallization, Tc, and the height of the peak, h, decrease with increasing R, and the R for which the...
... attacks onthe World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the suppression of terrorism rose to the fore of U.S concerns in theMiddleEast Al Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups draw heavily onthe ... has contributed to the political and economic isolation of the region Domestic developments over the past decade could also contribute to the destabilization of the region A new generation of ... throughout the region The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has also raised the potential for conflict between rival countries The exportation of MiddleEast terrorism around the world...
... cooperation on sharing the Jordan’s waters The contacts helped conciliate the Israelis—and the Americans, their common ally—during the period of the Arab summits when Jordan’s anti-Zionist propaganda ... fact that the Arab states had failed in their first postcolonial test The annexation of the West Bank by Transjordan (ensconced on both sides of the river now, the country would soon drop the “trans”), ... opposition to it at home, both of them escalating.58 The U.S simply could not commit itself in any other area of the globe, Johnson stressed, and to another confrontation with the Soviets Appreciation...
... studied the “Near East and then theMiddleEast first called themselves—were content simply to pen accounts of the region’s history and institutions; they sought also to penetrate the Arab ... is simply the wrong starting point for understanding them The “Code of Honor” Monopolizes theMiddle Eastern Psyche, and Subverts Modernization Mackey and Pryce-Jones both see the honor code, ... dehumanizing the colonized so the colonizers can go about their business with a sense of legitimacy Thus the invention of the “savage” onthe perimeters of “civilization,” and of the “noble savage,”...
... issues that resonate throughout the region Part I lays out the historical context for theMiddleEast It begins with a sweeping chapter onthe history of theMiddleEast from the earliest days, ... competing national identities have given resonance and force to the conflict through a mutual negation of the Other.” The chapter then looks at the situation onthe ground, examining how the two sides’ ... expansion was greatly influenced by the conditions in which Islam found itself and the heritage of the peoples and the regions it conquered along the way THE SETTING By the time Islam appeared in the...
... peasants in the modern MiddleEast (Lustick 1993; Younis 2000) Other comparisons that consider the particularities of theMiddleEast are also possible In most of theMiddle East, colonial rule ... and the Conference on Nation and Cultural Perceptions of Identity at UCLA Early versions of chapter were presented at the 1998 annual meeting of theMiddleEast Studies Association and the Conference ... versions and several varieties of neo-Marxism argued for a new periodization of the modern history of the region and focused attention onthe economic relations between Europe and theMiddle East...
... archaeological excavations as important endeavors in the ongoing diplomatic competition in theMiddleEast For the French, this competition, first with the British and then with the Germans, was the driving ... archaeologists and other specialists only for the duration of the season, three or four months at most, Breasted contracted them for the whole year This guaranteed that virtually the entire staff ... openness to the West, to appeal to a Maronite constituency.14 This brings to mind another important point concerning nation building and national identity formation in theMiddleEast Many nationalists...
... Organization; 2002 Background Paper: Non Communicable Diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries Regional High-level Consultation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region onthe Prevention and Control ... experience There is a close and continuous interaction among the faculty delivering the courses, and the students have the opportunity to better appreciate the unifying themes and concepts lying ... translational research programs in theMiddleEast is imperative But building a robust, viable research culture in theMiddleEast is a challenge There are several reasons for this - one, the Arab...