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

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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.

Published: 2022-11-01
Issue totals: 464 views 580 downloads

Studies

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

    45 views 62 downloads
    Authors: Lourdes Habash, Roxana Salameh
    7-24
    After the collapse of the Soviet Union, neorealist theory came under severe scrutiny. During its growth stages, the theory encountered unavoidable conceptual and empirical impediments, which cast...
  • Regional Security Governance, Audience Expectations, and Foreign Policy Roles: North Africa's Demand that Tunisia Maintains

    52 views 52 downloads
    Authors: 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 policy...
  • Israeli Policy on the Iranian Nuclear Program at the Beginning of President Ebrahim Raisi's Term

    40 views 60 downloads
    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 in the Middle East for as long as possible, and its various political,...
  • A Quarter-Century of Algerian Counter-Terrorism: A Historical Analysis

    57 views 48 downloads
    Author: Tahar Saoud
    62-79
    The basic hypothesis of the study is summarized in Israel's ongoing efforts to maintain its monopoly on nuclear weapons in the Middle East for as long as possible, and its various political,...
  • A Perspective on Climate Change/Conflicts Drivers Syndrome

    46 views 59 downloads
    Author: El Houcine Chougrani
    80-99
    Humanity has continued to develop expertise in addressing the environmental issue and to better understand extreme weather events such as droughts and increased desertification, often accompanied...

Translated Studies

  • Structural Realism after the Cold War

    59 views 86 downloads
    Authors: Kenneth Waltz; Ahmed Qasem Hussein (Translator)
    103-129
    Humanity has continued to develop expertise in addressing the environmental issue and to better understand extreme weather events such as droughts and increased desertification, often accompanied...

Documentation

  • Milestones in Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    38 views 49 downloads
    133-138
    This text is considered foundational to international relations, in defence of the theoretical model of realism, which was subjected - after the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Berlin...
  • Documents of Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    37 views 62 downloads
    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

    47 views 48 downloads
    145-150
    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...

Book Reviews

  • Transitional Justice in Process: Plans and Politics in Tunisia

    43 views 54 downloads
    Author: Sofia Hnezla
    153-159
    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.