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- There has traditionally been a wide divide between the study of the politics of Islam in the Middle East and in the West. Middle East-focused research in American political science has focused in great depth on issues such as political mobilization, social service provision, electoral...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- United States, Political Science, Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, Islam, Europe, and POMEPS Studies
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- This spring, major protests swept through Jordan over economic grievances and subsidy reforms. In July, protestors took to the streets in the south of Iraq, demanding that the government address persistent unemployment, underdevelopment, and corruption. Meanwhile, earlier in 2018, Tunisians...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, Social policy, International Relations, Islam, North Africa, and POMEPS Studies
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- Reconstruction following the devastating wars and state failure which followed the Arab uprisings of 2011 has become an increasingly pressing issue. In Iraq, the liberation of territories from the Islamic State came at great human and infrastructural cost. In Syria, the reconquest of territories...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, Islam, and POMEPS Studies
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- Long repressed, banned, and exiled, many Islamist movements and parties across the Middle East and North Africa witnessed a moment of electoral success after the 2011 uprisings. Since then, their fates have varied widely. Some have made significant compromises to stay in power, others have...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political science, Middle East, North Africa, Islam, International relations, POMEPS Studies, and Arab Spring
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- ‘Tis the season to reflect upon the course of the Arab uprisings. Over the last few weeks I have participated in three major workshops including nearly 50 scholars – and had to miss yet another in favor of a quick trip to Tunisia. It is not difficult to understand this intense urge to take stock,...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, Arab Uprisings, North Africa, International Relations, and POMEPS Studies
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- The turbulence in Gulf security politics today is difficult to miss: unusually sharp public splits in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), rising sectarian tensions, tough moves against the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist movements, and markedly harsh crackdowns on even minor forms of public...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Gulf, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, International Relations, Islam, and North Africa
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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. The war and humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen has...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), Lynch, Marc, and Yadav, Stacey Philbrick
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- Political science, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, Yemen, International relations, and North Africa
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- The Arab uprisings of 2011 radically reshaped the environment within which Islamist movements had evolved over the preceding decades, causing rapid, disorienting changes in their strategies, ideologies, and organizations. The last three years have produced an enormous amount of new information...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, Islam, and POMEPS Studies
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- The barriers to women’s political participation in the Middle East have long preoccupied scholars and analysts. The Arab uprisings of early 2011 disrupted virtually every dimension of Arab politics and societies, forcing a systematic re-evaluation of many long-held political science theories and...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, International Relations, North Africa, Gender, and Women
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- The story of the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 has typically been told as a series of loosely related national stories, happening simultaneously but whose successes and failures were essentially determined by internal factors. Over the last few years, political scientists have made great progress...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, Theory, and POMEPS Studies
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- The uprisings that swept the Arab world following the fall of Tunisia’s President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 represented a stunning moment in the region’s political history. For political scientists specializing in the region, the events of the last year and a half represented an...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Authoritarian, Middle East, Arab Uprisings, North Africa, International Relations, Arab Spring, and POMEPS Studies
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- It is sometimes hard to remember that the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 promised the possibility of meaningful political change. The unprecedented outburst of popular mobilization overthrew some regimes and unsettled most of the others. Those hopes have long since come crashing down. Egypt’s...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, North Africa, Security State, International Relations, POMEPS Studies, and Authoriatianism
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- You couldn’t swing a dead imperialist last summer without hitting an essay about the unraveling of the Sykes-Picot system in the Middle East. The bloody disintegration of Iraq and Syria seemed to have finally ripped apart the borders created by the British and French governments in the aftermath...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, Nationalism, North Africa, International Relations, and POMEPS Studies
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- What do we really know about the provision of social services by Islamist movements? It’s hard to find a popular article about groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood or Hezbollah that doesn’t reference their ability to win popular support by providing social services through their extensive...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Social Services, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, International Relations, Political Science, and North Africa
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- The Arab world never seemed more unified than during the incandescent days of the 2011 Arab uprisings. Tunisia’s revolution clearly and powerfully inspired Arabs everywhere to take to the streets. Egypt’s January 25 uprising that led to the removal of Hosni Mubarak taught Arab citizens and...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, Arab Uprisings, North Africa, International Relations, and POMEPS Studies
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- A group of Syrian-Americans arrived at an academic conference at Lehigh University last week in Bashar al-Assad t-shirts and draped in Syrian flags adorned with Assad’s face. They repeatedly heckled and interrupted speakers, and one told an opposition figure that he deserved a bullet in the head....
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Sectarianism, Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, and Islam
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- The “IS-ification of Islamist politics,” in Khalil al-Anani’s felicitous phrase, has reshaped the ideological and strategic incentives for Islamist groups and their adversaries. It has also posed a new challenge to the categories, concepts and expectations of the academics who study them. In...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, International Relations, Islamism, North Africa, and Islam
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- On May 3-4, 2016, POMEPS held a workshop, “From Mobilization to Counter-Revolution: The Arab Spring in Comparative Perspective,” in conjunction with Oxford University’s Middle East Centre at St. Anthony’s College and Department of Sociology. In recent years a great deal of attention has...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Counter-Revolution, Mobilization, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, International Relations, Arab Spring, and North Africa
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- Scholars and policymakers have increasingly recognized that Islamist movements and actors vary widely – from domestically oriented, quietist movements engaging in democratic systems to revolutionary, armed movements aiming to upend the nation-state system. Yet little has been done to understand...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political science, Middle East, North Africa, Islam, Local politics, International relations, POMEPS Studies, and Islamism
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- Few developments associated with the Arab uprisings have generated as much concern as the rapid emergence of Salafi movements into the public arena. The performance of al-Nour Party in Egypt’s parliamentary elections stunned many observers. Waves of attacks on Sufi shrines in Tunisia and Libya,...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, Islam, POMEPS Studies, and Islamism
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- The early months of 2016 mark five years since the eruption of the Arab uprising. The region’s wars, failed transitions, resurgent authoritarianism, and spiraling sectarianism and Islamist extremism make for a grim anniversary. To take stock of what went wrong and what might still go differently,...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, North Africa, Arab Uprising, and International Relations
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- What are the ethical obligations of an academic studying today’s Middle East? Have the Arab uprisings changed how scholars must weigh ethical and moral concerns in their research? How should academics incorporate their ethical commitments into their social scientific research agendas or policy...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Ethics, Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, and Islam
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- Islam has rarely been far from the center of the world’s political and security agenda in the decade and a half since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack against the United States. The range of issues to which Islam has been deemed central is staggering, from transnational terrorism and...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, International Relations, Islam, and North Africa
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- Syria is about to enter its third year of a brutal conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people and driven millions from their homes. What was originally a peaceful uprising has devolved into the world’s bloodiest civil war, fueled by an array of foreign interventions on all sides. The...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Syria, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, Political Science , International Relations, Islam, and North Africa
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- Engaging and influencing public policy debates on areas of their expertise is a core part of the mission of academics. The last decade has in many ways been the golden age of academic policy engagement. Social media, the proliferation of online publishing platforms, and a generational change in...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political science, Middle East, North Africa, Public policy, Policy engagement, International relations, and POMEPS Studies
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- The April 2 announcement in Lausanne of a framework for an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program has raised profound hopes and fears for the future of the Middle East. There are few developments with greater potential for fundamentally altering the political dynamics of the region – a prospect...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, Nuclear, and Iran
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- In years past, Islamist televangelists like Amr Khaled, Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Tareq Suwaidan seemed like the future of Arab media. Advancing a form of “soft Islam” focused on personal betterment and religiosity, these preachers were seen by some as a potential counterweight to extremist voices...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political science, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, Islamic media, International relations, and North Africa
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- In recent years there have been dramatic changes in the Islamist landscape as Islamist political parties have drastically transformed, violent new groups have burst on the scene, and the proliferation of new media has changed access to information. But have political scientists and other scholars...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Islamism , Middle East, North Africa, International Relations, and POMEPS Studies
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- The Middle East has experienced a dramatic flood of refugees and forced migration over the last fifteen years. The UN High Commission on Refugees reports more than 16 million refugees and 60 million displaced persons around the world today, including asylum seekers and the internally...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Forced migration, Political science, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, Refugees, International relations, and North Africa
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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...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Gulf, Political science, Middle East, North Africa, Islamist, Islam, Shi'a, International relations, and POMEPS Studies
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- It has been widely noted that monarchies have done better at surviving the Arab uprisings that began two years ago. Three Presidents (Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Saleh) have fallen, along with Muammar al-Qaddafi’s unique Jamahiriaya, while Bashar al-Assad’s Baathist presidential regime faces a mortal...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, POMEPS Studies, International Relations, Islam, and North Africa
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- Turkey has been in the news repeatedly in 2016, from the coup attempt of July to the subsequent government purges to its renewed fight against the PKK and crackdown on Kurdish populations. However surprising these developments may appear for an outside observer, they are deeply rooted in the...
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- Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and Lynch, Marc
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- Political Science, Middle East, Turkey, POMEPS Studies, International Relations, and North Africa
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