Vol. 11 No. 061 (2023): Issue 061

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 61st issue of the bimonthly peer-reviewed political science and international relations journal, Siyasat Arabiya.This issue features four studies in a special issue on the State of Political Science in the Arab World. This issue includes the following articles: “International Relations in the Arab World: A Social History of its Origins, Development and Current State of Affairs” by Sid Ahmed Goudjili; “Surveying the Field of International Relations in the Arab World: Realities and Challenges” by Ahmed Qasem Hussein; “Why is there No "Arab" International Relations Theory? Causes of the Deficiency of Arab Contributions into IR Theory” by Mekia Nedjar; “Teaching International Relations in the Arab World: Knowledge Production and Theoretical Challenges” by Bassel F Salloukh & May Darwich. The issue also contains the testimonial: “Originality and Renewal in Arab Political Science in Light of the Transformations of Today's World” by Antoine Nasri Messarra; and “The State of Political Science in Morocco” by Abdallah Saaf. The issue also contains the following documentation of Milestones in Democratic Transition in the Arab World and Palestine over two months, 1/1-28/2/2023, along with select Documents of Democratic Transition in the Arab World. The issue ends with Mohammed Al-Shibani’s review of Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions, by Frank A. Stengel [et al.] (editors), and Mohammed Hemchi’s translation of The People Want: When Democracy is Eroded by Aymen Boughanmi. Amina Mostefa Della also provides a review of Complexity Theory of International Relations: An Introduction by Mohammed Hemchi.

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Published: 2023-03-01

Articles

  • International Relations in the Arab World: A Social History of its Origins, Development and Current State of Affairs

    Author: Sid Ahmed Goudjili
    7-30

    This study examines a century of International Relations (IR) in the Arab world, addressing the field's origins and research gaps, and proposes a method to evaluate its scientific output and...

  • Surveying the Field of International Relations in the Arab World: Realities and Challenges

    Author: Ahmed Qasem Hussein
    31-52

    This exploratory study assesses the discipline of international relations in the Arab World, first by characterizing its status quo and considering its problems and challenges, then exploring...

  • The Physics Turn and Complexity Theory

    Author: Amina Mostefa Della
    148-158

    This review examines complexity theory in international relations, assesses the lessons of complexity theory, and explores why complex thinking is marginalized in international theory.

  • Why is there No

    Author: Mekia Nedjar
    54-77

    This study examines the lack of non-Western theories in International Relations (IR), highlighting the Arab World's intellectual and political shortcomings in the field since the Arab Spring.

  • Teaching International Relations in the Arab World: Knowledge Production and Theoretical Challenges

    Author: Bassel Salloukh, May Darwich
    78-93

    This study examines the different approaches to how IR is taught in Arab universities, and how Western theories are considered critically by the teaching of alternative approaches.

  • Originality and Renewal in Arab Political Science in Light of the Transformations of Today's World

    Author: Antoine Messarra
    97-106

    Antoine Nasri Messarra (b. 1938), a pioneer of Constitutional and Political Science in Lebanon and the Arab region, outlines a selection of the fundamental political ideas he developed over the...

  • The State of Political Science in Morocco

    Author: Abdallah Saaf
    107-114

    This testimony, written by one of the pioneers of the Social Sciences in Morocco, explores the evolution of Moroccan political science from the colonial knowledge, to the present state.

  • Milestones in Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    117-120

    Milestones in Democratic Transition in the Arab World, 1/1-28/2/2023.

  • Documents of Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    121-131

    This section highlights the most important political documents related to the democratic transition in the Arab world. In this issue, we publish a number of documents from January 1 to February...

  • Palestine Over Two Months

    132-136

    Palestine Over Two Months, 1/1-28/2023.

  • Populism in its National and Transnational Dimensions

    Author: Mohamed Chibani
    139-147

    The Arab Center has consecutively released two books centered on populism. Both are part of a research project the Center has been focusing on for years.