Banking on the Ruins of Empire: Developing Global Finance in Kuwait and Singapore

In everyday life, individuals regularly confront novel situations which demand their attention and response. In such situations, they routinely deploy portable norms to select between appropriate and....

Corruption is often treated as an obvious problem with an obvious explanation. Public officials, driven by self-interest, abuse their positions; to stop this behavior, we need better incentives, stricter enforcement, and stronger institutions.

A federal judge ruled Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would have restricted academic freedoms.

پرويز صداقت و محمد مالجو خبر بازداشت دو چهره ی چپ، پرويز صداقت اقتصاددان، ناشر و سر دبي

The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-...

The recent fighting was far more than a transient security incident. It was a profound setback for society.

The reviewed books attempt systematic evaluations of the transition from communism but come to very different conclusions, ranging from catastrophe to success. They tend to lay blame for the proble...

Abstract This article explores the sudden, unexpected emergence of Islam after 1979 as a central topic of research in Middle Eastern Studies conducted in East Germany, the former German Democratic Rep...

The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) was founded in Qatar in 2015 as a Doha-based independent institution of higher education.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi is building a new republic defined by a social ethos of “nothing for free,” a new form of state capitalism, and hyperpresidential powers set within a military g...

When Donald Trump announced “Liberation Day” on April 2, exporters, traders, government officials, and heads of state scrambled to find their country on

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Pepinsky, "Voting in Authoritarian Elections." Elections are often taken as a defining feature of democratic regimes. Although voting is not the only form of democratic political engagement, we tend to presume that voting makes the regimes we live under fairer, more stable and peaceful, or simply better governed.

Donald Trump has quickly made it clear that the guiding light in his relationships with Arab countries of the Gulf will be his trademark transactionalism.

An interview with Margarita Fajardo on CEPAL

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Technology transfer is a necessity for a just global green transformation

For centuries, the Iranians of Istanbul built lives, trade networks, and dreams in the capital of the Ottoman Empire. But today, few traces of their existence remain. A new documentary brings to life ...

Cambridge Core - Middle East Government,Politics and Policy - The King Can Do No Wrong

French Sociology and Empire - George Steinmetz, The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2023, 551 p.)

In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractionaliza...