...FIGURE 3. Regional Disparities in Tunisia. ...

... imposed, accompanied by new regional dynamics and security arrangements. Given their smallness, possession of significant resources, and geostrategic location, most of the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) were always vulnerable, because of either the disparity of their capabilities compared...

... is to be averted. Gross income disparities and inequalities such as those the author details, which are intrinsic to the system, must be rectified; and in what is most germane in the present context, the Syrian middle class can no longer be placated or controlled through the typical strategies that the regime has...

... regional disparity social media More than seven years ago, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) witnessed watershed events, resulting in the long awaited, yet varied, political and social transformations. The protests first started in Tunisia in late 2010 and early 2011, surprisingly ousting...

... pattern in Arab economic practices (including the Arab Gulf region) (e.g., Garam 2014 , 19). There are many instances of rising communal protests against environmentally degrading neoliberal developmental practices. Such practices are also highly conducive to a consumptive spirit among people while...

... the Egyptian economy and in rural Egypt in particular this being a region of relatively low income levels such disparities remain as pronounced as ever. Despite the adoption of new liberalization policies and the initiation of new land reclamation projects, living standards for those in rural regions...

.... We will, in the next several paragraphs, attempt to assess the effects of this regional developmental model adopted by both Qatar and the UAE since the beginning of the 1970s, which can be characterized as: growth without development, imbalances and inability to cope with demographics; disparities...

... positions. The regulatory environment in Lebanon has proven to be rigid, while Tunisia, in comparison, made significant regu- latory improvements in promoting women s status.12 The above examples hint at the disparities between countries in the Arab region. In general, however, the Arab world has been...

... it will do so from the perspective of national interests, and protect them from being undermined by rival powers. It will even try to prevent rival powers from acquiring the elements that would enable them to increase their influence around the world, especially in the regions considered to be under...

... in the Crises of Lebanon and the Region (Beirut: Arab Scientific, 2020). 327 pp. ISBN 9786140130883 This book consists of a set of analytical articles on issues related to Lebanese identity and consociational democracy, the performance of the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun’s administration...

... control, and transparency. Instead, the challenge is, or should be, threefold: the rebuilding of state structures; the launch of a nation-building process to overcome regional disparities and ethnic-religious conflicts; and the restoration of the state monopoly on violence, which can only be achieved...

...) al-Ni [amacr ] m al-Iql[imacr ] m[imacr ] al- Arab[imacr ] f[imacr ] Mar alat m[amacr ] ba d al-I til[amacr ] l al-Amr[imacr ] k[imacr ] lil-Ir[amacr ] q [The Arab regional system in the post-American occupation stage], by Ayman A mad Rajab, Beirut, Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2010, 415 pp...

... in Yemen might be applicable with some variation or modification elsewhere in the Arab region where uprisings have taken place or where they might conceivably occur in the future. This analysis revolves around the coincidence of four component factors or catalysts for the uprisings, which...

... by the Court of Justice. . Defining a new national pact that creates a new relation based on Saudis being citizens instead of residents and partners instead of subjects. 508 Opinion . Narrowing disparities in income between social classes and regions, maintaining a balance in development and the distribution...

..., with competition from China or India or both together. The problem lies in the continuation of armed crises among the countries of the region itself, in light of the vast disparity in the balance of power between them, and the continuing interference of one state in the affairs of another...

...) and the delusional objectives of G. W. Bush to remodel the Middle East have contributed to the turmoil that has plagued the region. Corm devotes several pages to the popular Arab upheavals in 2011. These were “highjacked” (170) by Islamic groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates, all empowered...

... it with political sectarianism. The author does not neglect to show that the proposal for state rebuild- ing has come in the absence of any regional or international agreement, thus contributing to the failure of any plan for political change. © 2016 The Centre for Arab Unity Studies CONTEMPORARY ARAB AFFAIRS, 2016...

... in the town of Bzou in Bejjaad region. The model of political economy According to Bouasla, the model of political economy is still in progress, meaning that scientific accumulation under its umbrella is still insignificant if compared with other models. This approach depends on the analysis of the structural...