Vol. 4 No. 019 (2016): Issue 019

​ACRPS has published issue 19 of the bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal Siyasat Arabia, a journal devoted to political science and international relations. This issue includes the following studies and analytical papers: "Israel's Policy on al-Aqsa" (Mahmoud Muhareb); "The Geopolitics of Clandestine Migration in the Mediterranean Basin: Dimensions of the Phenomenon and Background to the European Approach" (Nabil Zakawi); "Research's Response to Policy: the Case of Research into Forced Migration in Sudan" (Khalid Mohammed Dafa-Allah); "The Relationship between the Army and Political Power in Algeria: Between the Rule of Reality and the Challenges of Demilitarization" (Fouzia Kaci and Arabi Boumediene); "Civil Society in Contemporary Algeria: Political Economy of the Experience of Incomplete Democratization" (Nouri Driss); and "The AOI 2015: Political and Civic Participation" (Arab Opinion Unit).The issue also contains reviews of selected critical books: Ali Mirza's review of Oil Policies, Oil myths: Analysis and Memoirs of an OPEC Insider by Fadhil Chalabi; Ahmad Jassim al-Hussein's review of "Terrorism and its Creators" by Ali Harb; Emad Kaddoura's review of "The Dialogue between Islam and Secularism in Kurdistan: A Study of the Confluence between Islam and Secularism" by Othman Ali et al.; Hani Awwad's review of Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development Or Disaster? by David E. Sims; and Darar Bani Yasin's review of The Idea of Human Rights by Charles Beitz. There is also a report prepared by Hamzeh al-Mustafa on the conference "The Shia Arabs: Questions of Identity and Citizenship" held by ACRPS in Doha. The journal also includes the two regular sections covering the most important milestones of democratic transformation in the Arab world and events in Palestine during January and February 2016.

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Published: 2016-03-01

Articles

  • Israeli Policy towards the Haram Al Sharif

    Author: Mahmoud Muhareb
    5-22

    This paper traces a turning point among both religious and secular Jewish Israelis in the traditional religious view that had long admonished observant Jews from visiting the Haram Al Sharif.

  • The Geopolitics of Illicit Migration across the Mediterranean Basin: the Determinants of the European Approach

    Author: Nabil Zegaoui
    23-33

    In recent years, phrases such as “migrant crisis” and “illegal migration” have gained increased currency as means of describing larger waves of migration to Europe.

  • Scholarly Responses to Policy: the State of Affairs of Research on Forced Migration

    Author: Khalid Mohammed Dafa-Allah
    34-53

    Forced migration from Iraq and Syria today are reminiscent of the Palestinian Nakba of the late 1940s, underscoring the need for a revision of Arab knowledge in the field of forced migration.

  • Civil-Military Relations in Algeria: the Reality on the Ground and the Challenges

    Author: Fouzia Kaci, Arbi Boumediene
    54-67

    Military interventions in political life are a common occurrence across Africa, the Arab Region and the Third World in general, a phenomenon described by various observers as the situating of...

  • Civil Society in Present-Day Algeria: a Political Economy of an Incomplete Democratic Transition

    Author: Nouri Dris
    68-89

    Civil society rests on the principle of economic independence from politics, deemed to be a long-standing precondition to limiting the despotism of a political authority and its ability to wreak...

  • Civic and Political Participation

    Author: Public Opinion Polling Unit
    93-106

    This paper examines the relationship between democracy and active citizenship, an observed feature of states with a reasonably long established democracy.

  • Milestones in Democratic Transition in Arab World

    109-113

    This report highlights some of the major milestones of the Arab democratic transition from 1/1/2016 to 29/2/2016.

  • Palestine Over Two Months

    114-118

    This report chronicles some of the most significant developments relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1/1/2016 toو29/2/2016.

  • The Shia Arabs: Questions of Identity and Citizenship

    165-173

    The Shia Arabs: Questions of Identity and Citizenship

  • Oil Policies, Oil myths: Analysis and Memoirs of an OPEC Insider

    Author: Ali Mirza
    121-132

    Book Review: Oil Policies, Oil myths: Analysis and Memoirs of an OPEC Insider

  • The Dialogue between Islam and Secularism in Kurdistan: A Study of the Confluence between Islam and Secularism

    Author: Emad Y. Kaddorah
    142-148

    The Dialogue between Islam and Secularism in Kurdistan: A Study of the Confluence between Islam and Secularism [Arabic]

  • Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster?

    Author: Hani Awwad
    149-155

    Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster? [English]

  • The Idea of Human Rights

    Author: Darar Bani Yasin
    156-162

    The Idea of Human Rights [Translated into Arabic]