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1	“We Are All Jordan”: The Dynamic Definition of “We” in the Hashemite Kingdom (The Effects of Identity Precariousness on the Participation of Palestinian-Jordanians) Karmel, Ezra 25 August 2014 (has links) This thesis analyses the hirak movements that emerged in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 2011. Amalgamating literature from studies of identity and defensive democratization, the thesis places two central questions into historical context: why did the hirak movements emerge in the rural tribal strongholds of the Hashemite monarchy before spreading into urban centers? And why did the founders of more urban and demographically heterogeneous hirak collectively agree in the nascent stages of their movements’ geneses to underrepresent the presence of Palestinian-Jordanians? / Graduate Jordan Palestine Identity Hashemite Hirak Arab Spring
2	Al-Ḥirāk Al-Shabābī Al-ʾUrdunī (the Jordanian Youth Movement) : organisation, strategies and significance for social and political change in Jordan Blanco Palencia, Maria January 2017 (has links) This study examines Al-Ḥirāk Al-Shabābī Al-ʾUrdunī (the Jordanian Youth Movement), from now on the HSU, and aims to be a first scholarly attempt at mapping the organisation, strategy, challenges, and significance of this youth-led and youth-organised social movement. Taking an interpretive approach to organisational research, this thesis has used a wide range of primary and secondary data, benefited from extensive periods of participant observation as well as interviews with a variety of people including movement participants, in order to achieve a better understanding of the HSU. The main findings that result from this research show that the HSU is ideologically an umbrella to a variety of ideologies, from leftist or communists to Islamists, and that it chooses to organise informally and uninstitutionally in accordance with their political conviction of political parties and traditional opposition groups being a tool of social control for the regime. Politically, therefore, the movement represents a rupture with traditional politics in the country which are perceived by participants as part of a historically constructed system for exercising social control. Finally, the movement challenges traditional frames of ethnic and religious understandings of social and political subjectivities by mobilising a more inclusive discourse that tries to recover the debate on class struggle. Its political independence from other actors in the Jordanian political scene allows participant to raise more radical claims that seek regime removal as well as demands for reform, and these radical discourse within the movement greatly depend on the varying political opportunity structure in time determined by the Jordanian regime’s combination of conciliatory and repressive counter-strategies. An analysis of the strategic conversation between the regime and the HSU is key to exploring the social and political significance of movement strategies in bringing about change in the country as it determines the challenges to organisation encountered. However, relevant transformations in the culture of activism in Jordan are evident, and have the potential to transforming the future of political participation and organisation. 305.235095695
3	Lessons from the revolution of smiles : popularity, civism & pacifism in the Algerian Hirak / 微笑みの革命からの教訓 : アルジェリアのヒラクにおける大衆性、市民性、平和主義 / ホホエミノカクメイカラノキョウクン : アルジェリアノヒラクニオケルタイシュウセイシミンセイヘイワシュギ Ouadie Adimi 21 March 2022 (has links) 2019年2月22日、ブテフリカが5年連続出馬を決めたことを受け、アルジェリア人は不在の大統領の退陣を求め、街頭に立った。この革命は、運動と訳されるヒラクとして知られるようになった。2019年のアルジェリアのヒラクは、この国の歴史と対照的なだけでなく、この地域の中でもユニークである。実際、この運動は文献やジャーナリストによって、新奇なものであると評されている。その主な特徴は、その人気、平和主義、市民主義であり、正式な代表を持たず、第三セクターが存在しない中で達成されたものである。ヒラクは地域的な傾向とどのように対比されるのか、そして最も重要なことは、アルジェリア自身の社会的・政治的運動や革命の歴史とどのように対比されるのかということである。どのようにして暴力に対抗することができたのか。また、なぜチュニジアのように市民社会が、エジプトのように政党が代表するのではなかったのだろうか。 / In February 22, 2019, following Bouteflika's decision to run for a fifth consecutive mandate, Algerians took to the streets demanding their absent president to step down. This revolution became known as the hirak which translates to movement. Via an extensive literature review on this topic a recurring element has been highlighted; the 2019 Algerian hirak is unique not only in contrast to the country's history but also within the region. Indeed, the movement has been described by literature and journalists as a novelty. Its main characteristics are its popularity, pacifism and civism, which was achieved without formal representation and in the absence of a third sector. This research's main center of interest are these particularities: how does the Hirak contrasts with regional trends and most importantly how does it contrast with Algeria's own history of social and political movements and revolutions? How did it remain resilient to violence? How did it build such a magnitude and why wasn't it represented by civil society as was the case in Tunisia nor by a political party as was the case for Egypt? / 博士(グローバル社会研究) / Doctor of Philosophy in Global Society Studies / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University 市民運動ヒラクアルジェリア革命 Civil Movements Hirak Algeria Revolution
4	Krigsskådeplatsen Jemen: där lokala, regionala och globala intressen möts : En fallstudie om orsakerna till kriget i Jemen Mårtensson, Saga January 2017 (has links) Yemen is the poorest state in the Middle East and has been in conflict during the larger part of the century. Today the country suffers from the biggest humanitarian crisis in modern history, which is a consequence of a war that took off after the Arab Spring. The causes of the war have been presented trough different narratives which claims that the war is a "proxy war" between Saudi Arabia and Iran, or as a war between Sunni and Shia Muslims, or as a consequence of Al-Qaida's extension. This study challenges these narratives and gives another explanation, which takes several aspects into account when explaining the war's causes. This study strives to answer the question "what are the causes of the war in Yemen?" and does so by using the theory of states and nations by Benjamin Miller, and by using three levels: local, regional and global. The study concludes that the war can be explained through Miller's theory of State-to-Nation Balance, due to that the state Yemen is missing a nation, and due to that groups within the state does not identify with the state. The study also discusses the impact of Iran, Saudi Arabia and USA, but it also questions Miller's concept of a nation and the adequacy of using it when studying clans and tribes. Yemen Houthi Hirak Middle East War Conflict State-to-Nation Balance
5	Between Interest and Interventionism : Probing the Limits of Foreign Policy along the Tracks of an Extraordinary Case Study : The GDR's Engagement in South Yemen Muller, Miriam Manuela 13 March 2015 (has links) This case study is the first comprehensive analysis of the German Democratic Republic’s activities in South Yemen, the only Marxist state in the Arab World and at times the closest and most loyal ally to the Soviet Union in the Middle East during the Cold War. The dissertation analyzes East German Foreign Policy as a case of Socialist state- and nation-building and in doing so produces one major hypotheses: The case of South Yemen may be considered both, an ‘exceptional case’ and the possible ‘ideal type’ of the ‘general’ of East German foreign policy and thus points to what the GDR’s foreign policy could have been, if it hadn’t been for the numerous restraints of East German foreign-policy-making. The author critically engages with the normative and empirical dimensions of the ‘Limits of Foreign Policy’ by including a constructivist perspective of foreign policy. Apart from the case study itself, the dissertation provides the reader with a thorough overview of forty years of East German foreign policy with a focus on the interests and influence of The Soviet Union as well as the first introduction and methodological approach to East Germany's foreign policy in the Middle East. The empirical side of the analysis rests on archival documents of the German Foreign Office, the German National Archive and the former Ministry of State Security of the GDR. These documents are reviewed and published for the first time and are complemented by personal interviews with contemporary witnesses. The interdisciplinary approach integrates and expands methods of both History and Political Science, applicable to other cases. Conducted research is intended to contribute to academic discourse on South Yemen’s unique history, divided Germany’s role in the Cold War, East German foreign policy, but also the long-term impact of Socialist foreign-policy-making in the Global South which so far has been neglected almost completely in academia. / Graduate / miriam.mueller@fu-berlin.de South Yemen PDRY GDR Foreign Policy Divided Germany Cold War Soviet Union Socialism State-Building Nation-Building Gulf of Aden Crown Colony of Aden British Occupation National Liberation Front Marxism-Leninism Postcolonialism Neocolonialism German Identity Arab Nationalism Arab Socialism Arab Nationalist Movement Al-Hirak Southern Movement Constructivism Socialist Development Global South Middle East Arab Spring Marxist Critical Bab Al-Mandab Socotra Yemeni Socialist Party YSP FLOSY National Liberation Front NLF SED Honecker Ulbricht East Berlin

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