Bessma Momani
Biographic Data
| ID | 140737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bessma Momani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bessma |
| FAMILY NAME | Momani |
| SIGNATURE | MOMANI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4734-636X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Between worlds: Cis-and trans-identifying diaspora Middle Eastern and North African (Mena) women in Ontario, Canada on the intersections of gender, sexuality and sexual health
Youth Sexual Health and HIV/STI Prevention in Middle Eastern and North African Communities (YSMENA) is the first community-based research study in Canada to explore key determinants of sexual health among diaspora Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) women living in Canada. Our objectives were to identify the factors influencing sexual health for MENA youth and grow an evidence base to strengthen the sexual health response for MENA communities…
Local Community Care-based Activism and Civic Engagement Among Canadian Arab Youth
Youth today are engaging in civic-oriented activities in ways that differ from previous generations. Civic engagement refers to volunteerism and service-oriented activities and programs that expand community, ground social networks, help people, and make civil society possible. We find from this study that Canadian Arab youth give considerable service back to their communities, especially within the communities of their own cultural milieu, but a…
Middle Power in the Middle East: Canada’s Foreign and Defence Policies in a Changing Region
Political participation among Canadian Arab youth
Seeking to influence the direction of government policy decision-making, many young people are politically engaged, not through voting and party membership like youth in previous decades, but rather through membership in social, environmental or identity-centered organizations, lobby groups or advocacy organizations, and online groups. In this paper, we investigate the many ways that Canadian Arab youth get involved in the formal political system…
Gender Mainstreaming in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence: Lessons on the Implementation of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+)
This article uses the Canadian military's gender-mainstreaming strategy-gender-based analysis plus (or GBA+)-as a case study to explore the implementation of gender mainstreaming in militaries. Utilizing a mixed method approach, including group interviews and surveys, we employ Jahan's model of gender mainstreaming to understand how GBA+ has been operationalized. We argue that the implementation of GBA+ in the Defense Force constitutes a more sup…
Digital Archiving of Diasporic Cultural Productions and Transnational Citizenship of Arabs in the West
When transnationally constructed art forms, such as the works of diasporic cultural productions of Arabs in the West, are made available in open-source on a digital archive, this supports the transnational flow or exchange of citizenship-enhancing ideas, skill-sets, technologies, tools, capacities, and practices. In this theoretical investigation, we explore imagined outcomes when new audiences can engage with diasporic cultural productions of Ar…
Transnational Citizenship Mobilization among Canadian Arab Youth: An Engaged Social Movement for Change in the Middle East
In the wake of the Arab Revolutions, much has been said about the pivotal role that Arab youth played in mobilizing citizens against autocratic regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Less attention has been paid to the role played by engaged transnational Arab youth during this period. Canadian Arab youth offer an excellent case study to investigate the kinds of activities that youth social movements invest in to transnationally mobi…
Organizational change in Canadian public institutions: The implementations of GBA+ in DND/CAF
In 2016, the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) committed to the adoption of a Gender‐Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) toolkit across the forces. This article finds that the organizational culture of DND/CAF has helped them to adapt to this new policy approach, but that learning and transformation are not occurring. Based on DND/CAF documents, published internal DND/CAF studies, participant observation, interviews,…
Transnational Citizenship Capacity-Building: Moving the Conversation in New Directions
Challenging statist understandings of citizenship neglectful of their own ironies, we explore the literature on circulation to argue that political actors build citizenship capacities through the transfer of various technologies, ideas, and modes of organization and by enhancing self-understanding across and within borders. This work is largely conceptual. Although we focus on transnational activist engagement with and within the Middle East, the…
Canadian Arab Youth at the Border: Cultural Dissociation, Fear Management, and Disciplining Practices in Securitized Spaces
Building foundations for the comparative study of state and non-state terrorism
In this article, we argue that a comparative study of state and non-state terrorism that uses the minimal foundationalist definition of terrorism as its central analytical framework offers a unique and instructive approach for answering the question: “what is terrorism?” To date, most recent comparative case study analyses of terrorism focus on ideologies, political/governance models, structural/contextual enablers, practices, organisational stru…
Canadian Foreign Policy from the roaring 1990s
As a field of study, Canadian Foreign Policy has undergone dramatic changes over the last three decades, becoming disconnected from debates about our identity and values and more focused on Canadian foreign and defence policy. This transition in Canadian Foreign Policy reflects the changing priorities of successive Canadian governments and structural shifts in Canadian academia. Yet, such change has unfolded gradually and incrementally, such that…
Established and emergent political subjectivities in circular human geographies: Transnational Arab activists
In this paper, we argue that Arab transnational citizenship mobilization can be configured through ‘geographies of circularity’ (e.g. bridging multiple locales, encircling the state, transversally stirring political subjectivities, and in the full-circle return of identity). Circularity helps ground and highlight the character and significance of transnational political and social activism, and the transfer of communications, skills, behaviors, o…
Shifting Geo-Economic Power of the Gulf: Oil, Finance and Institutions
Contents: Introduction: the geo-economic power of the Gulf, Bessma Momani and Matteo Legrenzi Part I Economic Diversification and Rentier Politics in the Gulf Arab States: Gulf Arab states' investment of oil revenues, Mary Ann Tetreault The political economy of monetary integration and exchange rate regime in the GCC, Giacomo Luciani Economic diversification in the Gulf Arab states: lip service or actual implementation of a new development model?…
Arab Dawn: Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring
The Muslim Brotherhood: Between Democracy, Ideology and Distrust
Following the Arab Spring, democracy exercised through free and fair elections had allowed Islamist political parties to gain power in Egypt. There was a transformation happening in the ideology of Islamists, who were increasingly trying to influence legislation through democratic processes and social activism. It could be argued that for a time, the u.s. and other Western governments no longer viewed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as a threat compar…
Re-balancing the G-20 from Efficiency to Legitimacy: The 3G Coalition and the Practice of Global Governance
This article contributes to the literature on global governance, legitimacy, and small states through a detailed analysis of the Global Governance Group. It examines in particular the operational impact and wider conceptual implications of the 3G's collective diplomatic efforts on the Group of 20. By engaging in a reconfigured form of informal multilateralism, the article finds that the 3G has been and is capable of shaping the global agenda with…
The U nited S tates and B ahrain: Interpreting the Differentiated U . S . Responses to the A rab S pring
We examine how the U nited S tates' response to the situation in B ahrain can be differentiated from that in L ibya and E gypt based on a comparative content analysis of the U . S . administration's press releases, remarks, and interviews during the first three months of the A rab S pring movement. Our findings indicate that although the level and duration of violence were comparable, the U . S . government response was strikingly different with …
Shaping the Middle East in the Midst of the Arab Uprisings: Turkish and Saudi foreign policy strategies
While the Middle East and North Africa (mena) are undergoing rapid change, many domestic, regional and international actors are vying for space and influence as systems and customs evolve and adopt new forms. This paper characterises and compares the evolving foreign policy strategies of two such regional actors, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It further assesses the motivations and activities of and challenges to Turkish and Saudi involvement througho…
Explaining the use of planning consultants in O ntario cities
Consulting firms providing policy advice to governments is a widespread phenomenon. This article asks why municipalities employ urban planning consultant firms to advise on public sector projects. Municipal employees from 19 mid‐sized O ntario cities responded to online survey questionnaires asking for their opinions on why urban planning consultant firms are hired by their cities. In testing four hypotheses, this study found functionalism (the n…
Whose authority? Exporting Canadian urban planning expertise to Jordan and Abu Dhabi
Targeted Transnationals: The State, the Media, and Arab Canadians
The World Bank as Knowledge Bank: Analyzing the Limits of a Legitimate Global Knowledge Actor
The World Bank has always sold ideas, not just loans. Starting in 1996, then president James Wolfensohn rebranded the Bank by articulating a formal vision of a "Knowledge Bank"-a provider of state-of-the-art expertise on development. After a number of internal changes and assessments, the Bank is acknowledging that it needs to be more humble, pluralistic, and practical. Why do some regard the Bank as a legitimate knowledge actor, whereas others c…
Japan's Rescue of the IMF
When the 2008–2009 economic crisis hit, countries that had long dominated the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found themselves both the source of the financial problem and unable to provide financial assistance to major global governance organisations. With only US $200 billion available to assist a list of ailing countries, the International Monetary Fund found itself in difficulty. To the surprise of many observers, Japan made a bold commitme…
Between caution and controversy: Lessons from the Gulf Arab states as (re-)emerging donors
The history of Gulf donorship, its trajectory and underlying motivations, continues to be an understudied aspect of foreign aid. While the Gulf Arab states are not new donors, their manner of regional coordination, branding, and aid management are distinct. Often helping fellow countries of the South, particularly Arab and Muslim countries, these countries have moved towards stronger private sector involvement and into social spending programmes.…
American politicization of the International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund claims that its loan conditions are apolitically devised because loans are negotiated by the technocratic staff and away from the possibly politicized Executive Board. Previous studies have suggested IMF Executive Board politicization but have not analyzed internal IMF documentation. Recently released IMF Article IV Consultations from the IMF Archives provide the opportunity for a new methodology based on searching…
Recruiting and diversifying IMF technocrats
This article examines the International Monetary Fund's recruitment policies and reveals internal debates on diversifying the organisation. It has often been argued that the IMF economist staff are technocrats proposing common policy solutions to economic adjustment because of their shared knowledge and training. These 'econocrats' are argued to be monolithic in their thinking and background and a part of the 'Washington Consensus' on economic po…
Between caution and controversy: Lessons from the Gulf Arab states as (re-)emerging donors
The history of Gulf donorship, its trajectory and underlying motivations, continues to be an understudied aspect of foreign aid. While the Gulf Arab states are not new donors, their manner of regional coordination, branding, and aid management are distinct. Often helping fellow countries of the South, particularly Arab and Muslim countries, these countries have moved towards stronger private sector involvement and into social spending programmes.…
Gulf Cooperation Council Oil Exporters and the Future of the Dollar
Assessing the Utility of, and Measuring Learning from, Canada's IMF Article IV Consultations
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) annual Article IV consultation meetings and ensuing reports are external assessments of member states' economies by highly regarded international economists, designed to ensure that member states conform to IMF-prescribed liberal economic standards. For non-borrowing advanced industrialized countries, like Canada, what is the perceived utility of these annual Article IV consultations? Constructivists sugges…
Explaining the use of planning consultants in O ntario cities
Consulting firms providing policy advice to governments is a widespread phenomenon. This article asks why municipalities employ urban planning consultant firms to advise on public sector projects. Municipal employees from 19 mid‐sized O ntario cities responded to online survey questionnaires asking for their opinions on why urban planning consultant firms are hired by their cities. In testing four hypotheses, this study found functionalism (the n…
Limits on streamlining Fund conditionality: The International Monetary Fund's organizational culture
Whose authority? Exporting Canadian urban planning expertise to Jordan and Abu Dhabi
Pursuing Geopolitical Stability through Interregional Trade: The EU’s Motives for Negotiating with the Gulf Cooperation Council
The European Union’s drawn‐out trade negotiations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) could result in the first region‐to‐region free trade agreement. The EU’s motives for advancing interregional negotiations with the GCC have not been focused primarily on creating trade, which is argued to be relatively limited for the EU. Instead, the EU’s motives for continuing negotiations with the GCC are explained by the EU’s geopolitical and ideational…
The World Bank as Knowledge Bank: Analyzing the Limits of a Legitimate Global Knowledge Actor
The World Bank has always sold ideas, not just loans. Starting in 1996, then president James Wolfensohn rebranded the Bank by articulating a formal vision of a "Knowledge Bank"-a provider of state-of-the-art expertise on development. After a number of internal changes and assessments, the Bank is acknowledging that it needs to be more humble, pluralistic, and practical. Why do some regard the Bank as a legitimate knowledge actor, whereas others c…
Negotiating out of Argentina's financial crisis: Segmenting the international creditors
Developing countries restructuring their debts with international creditors are generally assumed to have little leverage in negotiations. This view of a weakened state mirrors an analysis of the c
Organizational change in Canadian public institutions: The implementations of GBA+ in DND/CAF
In 2016, the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) committed to the adoption of a Gender‐Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) toolkit across the forces. This article finds that the organizational culture of DND/CAF has helped them to adapt to this new policy approach, but that learning and transformation are not occurring. Based on DND/CAF documents, published internal DND/CAF studies, participant observation, interviews,…
Shaping the Middle East in the Midst of the Arab Uprisings: Turkish and Saudi foreign policy strategies
While the Middle East and North Africa (mena) are undergoing rapid change, many domestic, regional and international actors are vying for space and influence as systems and customs evolve and adopt new forms. This paper characterises and compares the evolving foreign policy strategies of two such regional actors, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It further assesses the motivations and activities of and challenges to Turkish and Saudi involvement througho…
Gender Mainstreaming in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence: Lessons on the Implementation of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+)
This article uses the Canadian military's gender-mainstreaming strategy-gender-based analysis plus (or GBA+)-as a case study to explore the implementation of gender mainstreaming in militaries. Utilizing a mixed method approach, including group interviews and surveys, we employ Jahan's model of gender mainstreaming to understand how GBA+ has been operationalized. We argue that the implementation of GBA+ in the Defense Force constitutes a more sup…
Re-balancing the G-20 from Efficiency to Legitimacy: The 3G Coalition and the Practice of Global Governance
This article contributes to the literature on global governance, legitimacy, and small states through a detailed analysis of the Global Governance Group. It examines in particular the operational impact and wider conceptual implications of the 3G's collective diplomatic efforts on the Group of 20. By engaging in a reconfigured form of informal multilateralism, the article finds that the 3G has been and is capable of shaping the global agenda with…
Transnational Citizenship Capacity-Building: Moving the Conversation in New Directions
Challenging statist understandings of citizenship neglectful of their own ironies, we explore the literature on circulation to argue that political actors build citizenship capacities through the transfer of various technologies, ideas, and modes of organization and by enhancing self-understanding across and within borders. This work is largely conceptual. Although we focus on transnational activist engagement with and within the Middle East, the…
Canada's IMF executive director
This article provides empirical evidence of the autonomy and agenda‐setting capabilities of Canada's International Monetary Fund executive director in Washington, D.C., for further theoretical debate. Little is known about this position in the public service. This article seeks to assess the degree of autonomy of Canadian directors from Ottawa, the nature of the IMF's agenda items proposed by Canada's executive directors, and, most importantly, w…
International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The Politics and Processes of Global Governance Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004. xvi, 6o3pp, US$69.95 cloth (ISBN 1-55587-987-X), US$32.50 paper (ISBN 1-55587-963-2)THE G8, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND CONFLICT PREVENTION Edited by John J. Kirton and Radoslava N. Stefanova Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. xxvi, 334pp, US$99.95 doth (ISBN 0-7546-0879-4)The old international relations question,…
Building foundations for the comparative study of state and non-state terrorism
In this article, we argue that a comparative study of state and non-state terrorism that uses the minimal foundationalist definition of terrorism as its central analytical framework offers a unique and instructive approach for answering the question: “what is terrorism?” To date, most recent comparative case study analyses of terrorism focus on ideologies, political/governance models, structural/contextual enablers, practices, organisational stru…
Established and emergent political subjectivities in circular human geographies: Transnational Arab activists
In this paper, we argue that Arab transnational citizenship mobilization can be configured through ‘geographies of circularity’ (e.g. bridging multiple locales, encircling the state, transversally stirring political subjectivities, and in the full-circle return of identity). Circularity helps ground and highlight the character and significance of transnational political and social activism, and the transfer of communications, skills, behaviors, o…
Another Seat at the Board: Russia's IMF Executive Director
Created 1944 as part of the postwar strategy to prevent another great depression, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was ideally meant to coordinate financing and technical advice to member countries experiencing economic imbalances. Today, however, the IMF is frequently criticized for its failure to be accountable and legitimate the eyes of its own members. Recently, many prominent policymakers across the world have argued that the IMF's legi…
Political participation among Canadian Arab youth
Seeking to influence the direction of government policy decision-making, many young people are politically engaged, not through voting and party membership like youth in previous decades, but rather through membership in social, environmental or identity-centered organizations, lobby groups or advocacy organizations, and online groups. In this paper, we investigate the many ways that Canadian Arab youth get involved in the formal political system…
Digital Archiving of Diasporic Cultural Productions and Transnational Citizenship of Arabs in the West
When transnationally constructed art forms, such as the works of diasporic cultural productions of Arabs in the West, are made available in open-source on a digital archive, this supports the transnational flow or exchange of citizenship-enhancing ideas, skill-sets, technologies, tools, capacities, and practices. In this theoretical investigation, we explore imagined outcomes when new audiences can engage with diasporic cultural productions of Ar…
The Muslim Brotherhood: Between Democracy, Ideology and Distrust
Following the Arab Spring, democracy exercised through free and fair elections had allowed Islamist political parties to gain power in Egypt. There was a transformation happening in the ideology of Islamists, who were increasingly trying to influence legislation through democratic processes and social activism. It could be argued that for a time, the u.s. and other Western governments no longer viewed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as a threat compar…
American politicization of the International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund claims that its loan conditions are apolitically devised because loans are negotiated by the technocratic staff and away from the possibly politicized Executive Board. Previous studies have suggested IMF Executive Board politicization but have not analyzed internal IMF documentation. Recently released IMF Article IV Consultations from the IMF Archives provide the opportunity for a new methodology based on searching…
Limits on streamlining Fund conditionality: The International Monetary Fund's organizational culture
Recruiting and diversifying IMF technocrats
This article examines the International Monetary Fund's recruitment policies and reveals internal debates on diversifying the organisation. It has often been argued that the IMF economist staff are technocrats proposing common policy solutions to economic adjustment because of their shared knowledge and training. These 'econocrats' are argued to be monolithic in their thinking and background and a part of the 'Washington Consensus' on economic po…
Negotiating out of Argentina's financial crisis: Segmenting the international creditors
Developing countries restructuring their debts with international creditors are generally assumed to have little leverage in negotiations. This view of a weakened state mirrors an analysis of the c
International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The Politics and Processes of Global Governance Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004. xvi, 6o3pp, US$69.95 cloth (ISBN 1-55587-987-X), US$32.50 paper (ISBN 1-55587-963-2)THE G8, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND CONFLICT PREVENTION Edited by John J. Kirton and Radoslava N. Stefanova Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004. xxvi, 334pp, US$99.95 doth (ISBN 0-7546-0879-4)The old international relations question,…
Assessing the Utility of, and Measuring Learning from, Canada's IMF Article IV Consultations
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) annual Article IV consultation meetings and ensuing reports are external assessments of member states' economies by highly regarded international economists, designed to ensure that member states conform to IMF-prescribed liberal economic standards. For non-borrowing advanced industrialized countries, like Canada, what is the perceived utility of these annual Article IV consultations? Constructivists sugges…
Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice
Another Seat at the Board: Russia's IMF Executive Director
Created 1944 as part of the postwar strategy to prevent another great depression, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was ideally meant to coordinate financing and technical advice to member countries experiencing economic imbalances. Today, however, the IMF is frequently criticized for its failure to be accountable and legitimate the eyes of its own members. Recently, many prominent policymakers across the world have argued that the IMF's legi…
Gulf Cooperation Council Oil Exporters and the Future of the Dollar
Pursuing Geopolitical Stability through Interregional Trade: The EU’s Motives for Negotiating with the Gulf Cooperation Council
The European Union’s drawn‐out trade negotiations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) could result in the first region‐to‐region free trade agreement. The EU’s motives for advancing interregional negotiations with the GCC have not been focused primarily on creating trade, which is argued to be relatively limited for the EU. Instead, the EU’s motives for continuing negotiations with the GCC are explained by the EU’s geopolitical and ideational…
Canada's IMF executive director
This article provides empirical evidence of the autonomy and agenda‐setting capabilities of Canada's International Monetary Fund executive director in Washington, D.C., for further theoretical debate. Little is known about this position in the public service. This article seeks to assess the degree of autonomy of Canadian directors from Ottawa, the nature of the IMF's agenda items proposed by Canada's executive directors, and, most importantly, w…
Japan's Rescue of the IMF
When the 2008–2009 economic crisis hit, countries that had long dominated the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found themselves both the source of the financial problem and unable to provide financial assistance to major global governance organisations. With only US $200 billion available to assist a list of ailing countries, the International Monetary Fund found itself in difficulty. To the surprise of many observers, Japan made a bold commitme…
Between caution and controversy: Lessons from the Gulf Arab states as (re-)emerging donors
The history of Gulf donorship, its trajectory and underlying motivations, continues to be an understudied aspect of foreign aid. While the Gulf Arab states are not new donors, their manner of regional coordination, branding, and aid management are distinct. Often helping fellow countries of the South, particularly Arab and Muslim countries, these countries have moved towards stronger private sector involvement and into social spending programmes.…
Shaping the Middle East in the Midst of the Arab Uprisings: Turkish and Saudi foreign policy strategies
While the Middle East and North Africa (mena) are undergoing rapid change, many domestic, regional and international actors are vying for space and influence as systems and customs evolve and adopt new forms. This paper characterises and compares the evolving foreign policy strategies of two such regional actors, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It further assesses the motivations and activities of and challenges to Turkish and Saudi involvement througho…
Explaining the use of planning consultants in O ntario cities
Consulting firms providing policy advice to governments is a widespread phenomenon. This article asks why municipalities employ urban planning consultant firms to advise on public sector projects. Municipal employees from 19 mid‐sized O ntario cities responded to online survey questionnaires asking for their opinions on why urban planning consultant firms are hired by their cities. In testing four hypotheses, this study found functionalism (the n…
Whose authority? Exporting Canadian urban planning expertise to Jordan and Abu Dhabi
Targeted Transnationals: The State, the Media, and Arab Canadians
The World Bank as Knowledge Bank: Analyzing the Limits of a Legitimate Global Knowledge Actor
The World Bank has always sold ideas, not just loans. Starting in 1996, then president James Wolfensohn rebranded the Bank by articulating a formal vision of a "Knowledge Bank"-a provider of state-of-the-art expertise on development. After a number of internal changes and assessments, the Bank is acknowledging that it needs to be more humble, pluralistic, and practical. Why do some regard the Bank as a legitimate knowledge actor, whereas others c…
The Muslim Brotherhood: Between Democracy, Ideology and Distrust
Following the Arab Spring, democracy exercised through free and fair elections had allowed Islamist political parties to gain power in Egypt. There was a transformation happening in the ideology of Islamists, who were increasingly trying to influence legislation through democratic processes and social activism. It could be argued that for a time, the u.s. and other Western governments no longer viewed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as a threat compar…
Re-balancing the G-20 from Efficiency to Legitimacy: The 3G Coalition and the Practice of Global Governance
This article contributes to the literature on global governance, legitimacy, and small states through a detailed analysis of the Global Governance Group. It examines in particular the operational impact and wider conceptual implications of the 3G's collective diplomatic efforts on the Group of 20. By engaging in a reconfigured form of informal multilateralism, the article finds that the 3G has been and is capable of shaping the global agenda with…
The U nited S tates and B ahrain: Interpreting the Differentiated U . S . Responses to the A rab S pring
We examine how the U nited S tates' response to the situation in B ahrain can be differentiated from that in L ibya and E gypt based on a comparative content analysis of the U . S . administration's press releases, remarks, and interviews during the first three months of the A rab S pring movement. Our findings indicate that although the level and duration of violence were comparable, the U . S . government response was strikingly different with …
Arab Dawn: Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring
Shifting Geo-Economic Power of the Gulf: Oil, Finance and Institutions
Contents: Introduction: the geo-economic power of the Gulf, Bessma Momani and Matteo Legrenzi Part I Economic Diversification and Rentier Politics in the Gulf Arab States: Gulf Arab states' investment of oil revenues, Mary Ann Tetreault The political economy of monetary integration and exchange rate regime in the GCC, Giacomo Luciani Economic diversification in the Gulf Arab states: lip service or actual implementation of a new development model?…
Building foundations for the comparative study of state and non-state terrorism
In this article, we argue that a comparative study of state and non-state terrorism that uses the minimal foundationalist definition of terrorism as its central analytical framework offers a unique and instructive approach for answering the question: “what is terrorism?” To date, most recent comparative case study analyses of terrorism focus on ideologies, political/governance models, structural/contextual enablers, practices, organisational stru…
Canadian Foreign Policy from the roaring 1990s
As a field of study, Canadian Foreign Policy has undergone dramatic changes over the last three decades, becoming disconnected from debates about our identity and values and more focused on Canadian foreign and defence policy. This transition in Canadian Foreign Policy reflects the changing priorities of successive Canadian governments and structural shifts in Canadian academia. Yet, such change has unfolded gradually and incrementally, such that…
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