June 01, 2019
The Dilemma of “Normalization”: Can Islamists Participate without Polarizing Politics?
This paper is part of ACW's fourth book, titled The Arab World Beyond Conflict. The dislike, or even hatred, of mainstream Islamist parties1 is assumed to lead to a desire to repress or exclude them...
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Identity and Inclusion: Rethinking Citizenship in Arab Societies
This paper is part of ACW's fourth book, titled The Arab World Beyond Conflict. The Arab world comprises 22 countries and more than 400 million inhabitants, a wide geographic spread, multiple religions and languages, distinctive...
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Inclusive Economic Growth in Arab States
This paper is part of ACW's fourth book, titled The Arab World Beyond Conflict. Introduction The global economy is undergoing considerable structural shifts that will affect the Arab states’ trajectory of economic development. Increasingly, governments...
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A Collaborative Regional Reconstruction Strategy in the Arab World
This paper is part of ACW's fourth book, titled The Arab World Beyond Conflict. Introduction Developments in the Middle East, from Syria to Yemen to Palestine, have prompted a reassessment of what needs to be...
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Time, Transition, and Justice in Arab States
This paper is part of ACW's fourth book, titled The Arab World Beyond Conflict. What does it mean to pursue criminal accountability in the context of resurgent authoritarianism and ongoing conflict? This question has been...
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The Legacy of the Pillared Arab State
This paper is part of ACW's fourth book, titled The Arab World Beyond Conflict. Introduction Among other things, politics provides a means of managing conflicts. Autocracies foster and manipulate disputes, while democracies—when they function correctly—negotiate,...
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Chronic Insecurity in the Middle East: Causes and Consequences
This paper is part of ACW's fourth book, titled The Arab World Beyond Conflict. Even before the discovery of oil in southwestern Iran at the start of the 20th century, the Middle East was viewed...
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Government Survival Strategies in the Middle East
This paper is part of ACW's fourth book, titled The Arab World Beyond Conflict. Regional and global geopolitics, intrigues, and rivalries often attract the most attention among analysts examining the conflicts plaguing the Middle East....
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