Vol. 10 No. 059 (2022): Issue 059

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 59th issue of its bimonthly peer-reviewed political science and international relations journal, Siyasat Arabiya. This issue includes the following articles: "The Neorealism Research Program between Progress and Degeneration: Reading in the Concepts of Anarchy and Balance" by Lourdes Habash and Roxana Salameh; "Regional Security Governance, Audience Expectations, and Foreign Policy Roles: North Africa's Demand that Tunisia Maintains its "Strategic Distance"" Imad Mansour and John Daniels Hicks; "Israeli Policy on the Iranian Nuclear Program at the Beginning of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's Term" by Mahmoud Muhareb; "A Quarter-Century of Algerian Counter-Terrorism: A Historical Analysis" by Tahar Saoud; "A Perspective on Climate Change/Conflicts Drivers Syndrome" by El Houcine Chougrani. The issue presents a translation of Kenneth Waltz's "Structural Realism after the Cold War," by Ahmed Qasem Hussein. Also included in this issue is the documentation of Milestones in Democratic Transition in the Arab World and Palestine over two months, 1/9-31/10/2022, along with select documents on Democratic Transition in the Arab World. The issue also contains Sofia Hnezla's review of Transitional Justice in Process: Plan in Politics in Tunisia by Mariam Salehi.

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Published: 2022-11-01

Articles

  • The Neorealism Research Program between Progress and Degeneration: A Reading of the Concepts of Anarchy and Balance

    Author: Lourdes Habash, Roxana Salameh
    7-24

    This paper discusses the concepts of 'anarchy' and 'balance' in an attempt to judge the progressiveness of the realism theory and raises a major question related to the extent of the progression...

  • Regional Security Governance, Audience Expectations, and Foreign Policy Roles: North Africa's Demand that Tunisia Maintains

    Author: Imad Mansour, John Daniels Hicks
    25-47

    By studying Tunisian foreign policy in the decade after the 2010 popular uprisings, this article contributes to Role Theory by explaining how regional audience expectations influence foreign...

  • Transitional Justice in Process: Plans and Politics in Tunisia

    Author: Sofia Hnezla
    153-159

    The book, argues that transitional justice processes are nonlinear, that transitional justice norms are subject to reversal, and that the often assumed seductive appeal of transitional justice...

  • Israeli Policy on the Iranian Nuclear Program at the Beginning of President Ebrahim Raisi's Term

    Author: Mahmoud Muhareb
    48-61

    The basic hypothesis of the study is summarized in Israel's ongoing efforts to maintain its monopoly on nuclear weapons as long as possible.

  • A Quarter-Century of Algerian Counter-Terrorism: A Historical Analysis

    Author: Tahar Saoud
    62-79

    The paper at hand aims at examining the Algerian experience of countering terrorism as one of the Arab and worldwide experiences in confronting this phenomenon.

  • A Perspective on Climate Change/Conflict Drivers Syndrome

    Author: El Houcine Chougrani
    80-99

    This study attempts to deconstruct the relatedness/ unrelatedness of climate change and the drivers of conflict, focusing on international law perspectives.

  • Structural Realism after the Cold War

    Author: Kenneth Waltz
    103-129

    Waltz refutes these statements, emphasizing the ability of structural realism, despite the criticism levelled at it, to explain and understand international post-Cold War phenomena.

  • Milestones in Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    133-138

    This report includes documentation of the most prominent democratic transition stations in the Arab world during the period from Septemper 1 to October 31, 2022.

  • Documents of Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    139-144

    This section lists the most prominent political documents related to the democratic transition in the Arab world. In this issue, we publish a number of documents from Tunisia, and Sudan for the...

  • Palestine Over Two Months

    145-150

    This report includes documentation of the most important Palestinian facts and events related to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the period from Septemper 1 to October 31, 2022.