What characterizes the latest wave of youth mobilization? How is youth activism, and youth politics, changing public attitudes and government policies? Can any generalizations be made about youthfulness, and the experience of being young and political, in the Middle East today? The essays contained in POMEPS Studies 36: Youth Politics in the Middle East and North Africa attempt to answer these questions.
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The 14 papers in POMEPS Studies 35: Religion, Violence, and the State in Iraq exemplify the ways in which scholars are using new perspectives, data, and sources to offer insights into religion, violence, and the state in Iraq’s past, present, and future.
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What is the current structure of international relations, and how does this shape the politics of the Middle East? For…
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More than two generations have passed since oil transformed the economies and societies of the Gulf monarchies. Gulf citizens enjoy…
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There has traditionally been a wide divide between the study of the politics of Islam in the Middle East and…
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This spring, major protests swept through Jordan over economic grievances and subsidy reforms. In July, protestors took to the streets…
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Reconstruction following the devastating wars and state failure which followed the Arab uprisings of 2011 has become an increasingly pressing…
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Yemen’s war has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes. The preventable consequences of the war have been well-documented and the military conflict is now at a stalemate. For Yemenis, 2018 promises a sustained downward spiral.
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The study of Islamist movements has often implicitly meant the study of Sunni Islamist movements. An enormous amount of political science scholarship has dissected the ideology, organization, and political strategy of Sunni Islamist movements.However these academic communities that study Sunni Islamism often proceed without any interaction with the academic communities that study Iran or Shi’a politics in Arab countries.
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On June 5, 2017, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates launched a campaign against Qatar. Tensions between these Gulf…
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