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The regional order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East. Regional rivalries and security alliances

Dr. Philipp O. Amour is thrilled to announce the publication of his latest edited Book by Palgrave Macmillan “The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances”. This book examines the regional order in the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East, focusing on regional rivalries and security…

Did a Palestine Spring take place in the wake of the Arab Spring movement? The lost decade in Palestine

DID A PALESTINE SPRING TAKE PLACE? THE LOST DECADE IN PALESTINE

Did a Palestine Spring take place? The lost decade in PalestineThe Arab Spring movement, in its initial state, delivered to Palestinians a revolutionary stimulus and a strategic window to challenge domestic politics. In retrospect, however, the Palestine Spring proved to be short-lived and ineffective in achieving the demanded politico-economic reforms and national unification of Fatah…

Palestine within the unfolding regional order in the Middle East

Palestine within the unfolding regional order in the Middle East

Palestine within the unfolding regional order in the Middle East How have regional dynamics and domestic pathologies since 2010 affected (i.e., constrained or delimited) Palestinian reconciliation and rapprochement between Fatah and Hamas? This article concludes that the interplay of systemic and domestic factors has notably set the two rival movements on distinctly different trajectories of…