Discussing Arab Spring’s effect on scientific productivity and research performance in Arab countries
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03127-7
Abstract: This research letter discusses whether Arab Spring explains the changes in research productivity and impact of Arab countries by identifying non-sociopolitical factors that can be behind the variations of the research performance of several Arab… read more here.
Keywords: research; research performance; arab spring; productivity ... See more keywords
Youth Unemployment, Gender and Institutions During Transition: Evidence from the Arab Spring
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02300-3
Abstract: Youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the highest in the world surpassing all geopolitical regions. The MENA region witnessed sweeping changes negatively affecting the labor market and markedly increasing… read more here.
Keywords: youth unemployment; unemployment; arab spring; gender ... See more keywords
Financial stress dynamics in the MENA region: Evidence from the Arab Spring
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2019.05.004
Abstract: In this paper we analyse the impact of instability caused by the Arab Spring on the co-movements and volatility spillovers of aggregated Financial Stress Indices for eight MENA countries. Using a dynamic frequency connectedness framework,… read more here.
Keywords: region; financial stress; arab spring; spring ... See more keywords
Ontological security, circulations of affect, and the Arab Spring
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DOI: 10.1057/s41268-017-0089-x
Abstract: Ontological security research in International Relations (IR) generally argues that agents pursue both physical security and a secure sense of self. However, insofar as this work focuses on agents’ stabilising routines, this article asks what… read more here.
Keywords: security circulations; arab spring; security; ontological security ... See more keywords
Religious Freedom, the Arab Spring, and US Middle East Policy
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DOI: 10.1057/s41311-017-0021-4
Abstract: This article examines the critically important but often neglected topic of religious freedom in the Middle East and North Africa in the context of the Arab Spring. While conceding that the Arab world generally suffers… read more here.
Keywords: religious freedom; middle east; freedom; arab spring ... See more keywords
Never out of Now: Preference Falsification, Social Capital and the Arab Spring
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DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2019.1650744
Abstract: ABSTRACT Could the Arab Spring have led to a rise in support for authoritarian governments in some states? Discussions of revolutionary diffusion during the Arab Spring focused on whether expressions of discontent spread to different… read more here.
Keywords: expressions discontent; arab spring; never preference; preference falsification ... See more keywords
The Revolutionary Socialists in Post-“Arab Spring” Egypt*
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DOI: 10.1080/08854300.2016.1256584
Abstract: Along with the rise of Political Islam in recent years, has come a relative resurrection of Left movements in Arab states. During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, communist parties were restored in Lebanon,… read more here.
Keywords: revolutionary socialists; arab spring; egypt revolutionary; spring egypt ... See more keywords
Tunisia’s youth: awakened identity and challenges post-Arab Spring
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DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2017.1371000
Abstract: Abstract This paper examines Tunisian youths’ sense of identity and how it is influenced by the economic malaise that the country has experienced since the revolution; this is despite the relative success of the Arab… read more here.
Keywords: arab spring; spring; spring tunisia; post arab ... See more keywords
Magical realism and metafiction in Post-Arab spring literature: narratives of discontent or celebration?
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DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2018.1520627
Abstract: ABSTRACT My study is an attempt to examine recent developments in post-Arab Spring fiction by Anglo-Arab immigrant authors. Instead of conforming to the traditional narrative modes and strategies, post-Arab Spring literature provides a bitter evaluation… read more here.
Keywords: arab spring; spring literature; spring; post arab ... See more keywords
Consensus vs. dissensus over the ‘civil state’ model: a key to understanding the diverse outcomes of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia
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DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2019.1651631
Abstract: ABSTRACT The ‘Jasmine Revolution’ that toppled Tunisian president Zine al-‘Abidine Ben ‘Ali on 14 January 2011, and the 25 January 2011 uprising that toppled Egyptian President Husni Mubarak had similar characteristics yet different outcomes. While… read more here.
Keywords: state; civil state; arab spring; model ... See more keywords
Reassessing the risk conditions for political instability in the light of the Arab Spring
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DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2016.1179211
Abstract: In today’s globalized world, multinational firms contend with a diverse set of risk factors in their worldwide operations. The recent regime changes in northern African countries, also called the Arab Spring, have highlighted that political… read more here.
Keywords: reassessing risk; arab spring; political instability; instability ... See more keywords