Vol. 4 No. 021 (2016): Issue 021

​ACRPS has published issue 21 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: “Globalization and Extremism: Towards Revealing an Ambiguous Relationship” (Layachi Anser); “Chinese Foreign Policy from the Perspective of Strategic Culture” (Emad Mansour); “Global Climate Negotiations: Development on Paper and Doubts in Practice” (Elhoucine Chougrani and Khaled Elkadaoui); “The Zionist Lobby in Britain: Growth and Activity” (Nawaf al-Tamimi); and “Algeria and the Security Threats from the Sahel: Perception, Mechanisms, Confrontation” (Hocem Hamza). The issue contains a policy analysis, “The July 15 coup and the Future of Turkey” (Said el-Hajj) and a paper prepared by the Arab Opinion Unit at the ACRPS in the AOI section entitled, “Israel in Arab Public Opinion”.Also included in this edition are reviews of two important books: Ahmad Qassem Hussein’s review of Le Temps des humiliés: Pathologie des relations internationales by Bertrand Badie and Abubakr Abdelrazig’s review of Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror by Hamid Dabashi. 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 May and June 2016.

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Published: 2016-07-01

Articles

  • Globalization and Extremism: Exploring an ambiguous relationship

    Author: Layachi Anser
    7-25

    Globalization and extremism or radicalism are two important phenomena attracting unprecedented attention.

  • Chinese Foreign Policy from a “Strategic Culture” Framework

    Author: Imad Mansour
    26-41

    This article explains underlying drivers of the general contours of Chinese foreign policy. Since the Cold War,

  • Global Climate Negotiations: Improving the Legal Aspects and Practice’s Constraints

    Author: Khalid Elkadaoui, El Houcine Chougrani
    43-58

    This study discusses the most important developments in global climate negotiations since the Rio de Janeiro’s conference of 1992 until the Paris ‘conference in November 2015 that main focus was...

  • Zionist lobby in Britain: Emergence and activities

    Author: Nawaf Al Tamimi
    59-75

    This research tried to explore different stages of the Zionist 'penetration' of British political circles, and to identify the strategies and tactics

  • Algeria and Security Threats in the Sahel: Conception and Countering Mechanisms

    Author: Houcem Hamza
    76-89

    This study aims to deconstruct the Algerian security approach towards the Sahara and Sahel region in Africa which is a concern that currently exemplifies a corne stone in its foreign policy

  • The 15 July Coup and the Future of Turkey

    Author: Said Elhaj
    93-102

    The failure of the 15th of July 2016 military coup attempt in Turkey will remain an exceptional landmark in Turkey’s modern history, as well as in the political legacy of the Turkish Justice and...

  • Arab Public Attitudes towards Israel

    Author: Public Opinion Polling Unit
    105-112

    Results from the Arab Opinion Index indicate that the Arab public is strongly conscientious of the threat posed by Zionism.

  • Milestones in Democratic Transition in Arab World

    115-119

    يThis report highlights some of the major milestones of the Arab democratic transition from 1/5/2016  to  29/6/2016

  • Palestine Over Two Months

    120-124

    This report chronicles some of the most significant developments relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict

  • Le Temps des humiliés: Pathologie des relations internationales [Translated into Arabic]

    Author: Ahmed Qasem Hussein
    127-133

    Le Temps des humiliés: Pathologie des relations internationales [Translated into Arabic]

  • Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror [Translated into Arabic]

    Author: Abubakr Abdelrazig
    134-140

    Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror [Translated into Arabic]