Vol. 13 No. 072 (2025): Issue 072

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The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 72nd issue of Siyasat Arabiya, a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of political science and international relations. This issue contains the following articles: “Transnational Activism and the Evolution of Human Rights in Post-2013 Coup Egypt" by Moataz El Fegiery; “Above the Hierarchy: The Legal Status of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Light of the Constitutional Court's Political Role" by Rashad Twam and MahmoudAbu Sway; “Political Transition in Syria: Challenges and Perspectives for State Building and Political Institutional Reform" by Emad Alali; “China and Its Foreign Relations through the Lens of Its Strategic Culture: The Case of Sino-Qatari Relations (1988–2024)" by Mohamed Mesfer; “Paradiplomacy and State's Foreign Function: Adaptation or Restructuring?" by Inass Abdulsada Ali and Hayder Sabah Kadhim. The translation section includes Alexander Wendt's “The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory" by Ahmed Qasem Hussein. This issue also documents key events in the democratic transition in the Arab world and Palestine over the two-month period from 1 November to 31 December 2024. Additionally, it features Hiba Amir's review of Géopolitique du sport by Pascal Boniface.

Published: 2025-01-01
Issue totals:14 views2 downloads2 citations

Articles

  • Political Transition in Syria: Challenges and Perspectives for State Building and Political Institutional Reform 1 views0 downloads

    Author: Emad Alali
    52-70
    The political transition in Syria after the fall of Assad regime faces many interpretations and challenges. This study attempts to identify the situational determinants that form the general...

  • Paradiplomacy and State’s Foreign Function: Adaptation or Restructuring? 1 views0 downloads

    Author: Inass Abdulsada Ali, Hayder Sabah Kadhim
    86-100
    In the past two decades of the twentieth century, global politics witnessed significant transformations in the structures of international actors and their patterns of interaction. Among these was...

  • Géopolitique du sport 2 views0 downloads

    Author: Hiba Amir
    149-155
    ​This report documents the most significant Palestinian developments and events related to the Arab-Israeli conflict during the period from November 1 to December 31, 2024.​

  • Transnational Activism and the Evolution of Human Rights in Post-2013 Coup Egypt 1 views0 downloads

    Author: Moataz El Fegiery
    9-24
    The paper focuses on transnational human rights activism and its efforts to influence the human rights landscape in Egypt. It argues that the global human rights system has provided a space for...

  • Above the Hierarchy: The Legal Status of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Light of the Constitutional Court's 2 views0 downloads

    Author: Rashad Twam, Mahmoud Abu Sway
    25-50
    This study focuses on the legal status of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence (PDI) issued in 1988 by the Palestinian National Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in...

  • China and Its Foreign Relations through the Lens of Its Strategic Culture: The Case of Sino-Qatari Relations (1988–2024) 3 views2 downloads

    Author: Mohamed Mesfer
    71-85
    China’s foreign policy is concerned with strengthening relations with states of significance in the world, whether large or small. Its strategic culture plays a key role in shaping its vision of...

  • The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory 1 views0 downloads Cited twice

    Author: Alexander Wendt; Ahmed Qasem Hussein (Translator)
    103-130
    This text was fundamental to the crystallization of structuralist theory in international relations. It addresses one of the discipline’s major dilemmas: the dialectic of the relationship between...

  • Documents of Democratic Transition in the Arab World 1 views0 downloads

    This section highlights the most significant political documents related to democratic transition in the Arab world. In this issue, we publish documents from Iraq, Syria, and Tunisia covering...

  • Democratic Transition in the Arab World 1 views0 downloads

    This report documents the key milestones of democratic transition in the Arab world during the period from November 1 to December 31, 2024.

  • Palestine Over Two Months 1 views0 downloads

    This report documents the most significant Palestinian developments and events related to the Arab-Israeli conflict during the period from November 1 to December 31, 2024.