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Ray Takeyh (2021). The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty. Yale University Press & Council for Foreign Relations. Hardback, ISBN: 9780300217797. Price: ₹2,800. 332 pp. 雷·塔克(2021)。《最后的国王:美国、伊朗和巴列维王朝的覆灭》耶鲁大学出版社和外交关系委员会。精装本,ISBN: 9780300217797。价格:₹2800。332页。
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221139518
Prabhat Jawla
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The Lack of Circulation of Elites in Lebanon: Towards Communitocracy and Autocratization 黎巴嫩精英流动的缺失:走向共产主义和专制
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221143582
Francisco Salvador Barroso Cortés, Christophe Kairouz
The article examines how the lack of circulation of political elites has contributed to setting up an economic–political system designed to avoid the construction of a political entity and common Lebanese identity for fear of losing their traditional role and privileges on the political scene. Toward this, the article provides a general assessment of the Lebanese consociational democracy to understand the elements and factors hampering this form of political governance. Then it delves into the main socio-political factors that allow the triumph of communitocracy. It shows how the lack of circulation on elites, on the one hand, the consociational system on the other, affect democratization and nation-building processes. It throws light on the misbehavior of the Lebanese elites concerning the challenge that democracy and national building represent.
这篇文章探讨了政治精英的缺乏流通是如何促成建立一个经济-政治体系的,该体系旨在避免建立一个政治实体和共同的黎巴嫩身份,因为担心失去他们在政治舞台上的传统角色和特权。为此,本文对黎巴嫩联合民主进行了总体评估,以了解阻碍这种形式政治治理的因素。然后,它深入探讨了允许社群主义胜利的主要社会政治因素。它一方面显示了精英流通的缺乏,另一方面显示出联合制度对民主化和国家建设进程的影响。它揭露了黎巴嫩精英在民主和国家建设所代表的挑战方面的不当行为。
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Chinese Vaccine Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Continuities and Rupture in Beijing’s Soft Power Prospects 中国在东地中海的疫苗外交:北京软实力前景的延续与断裂
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-02-06 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221143276
Çağdaş Üngör
This article examines China’s vaccine drive in Eastern Mediterranean countries of Türkiye, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories during 2020–2021 from a soft power angle. 1 Although Chinese COVID-19 era health diplomacy is presented as a major breakthrough in the West, this study argues that continuities are more visible in the Eastern Mediterranean context with regard to China’s discourse and diplomatic practices. Beijing invested in the existing notions of propaganda, such as solidarity with developing countries, anti-Americanism, and economic partnership. In assessing the impact of Chinese vaccine diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean, the study investigates major diplomatic events and concludes that China could not improve its image in Türkiye in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
本文从软实力的角度考察了2020-2021年中国在东地中海国家(土耳其、埃及、叙利亚、黎巴嫩和巴勒斯坦领土)开展的疫苗接种活动。1尽管中国新冠肺炎时代的卫生外交在西方被视为重大突破,但本研究认为,在东地中海背景下,中国的话语和外交实践的连续性更为明显。北京投资于现有的宣传概念,如与发展中国家团结一致、反美主义和经济伙伴关系。在评估中国疫苗外交在东地中海的影响时,该研究调查了重大外交事件,并得出结论,中国在2019冠状病毒病大流行后未能改善其在基伊的形象。
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Determinants of Consumers’ Decision to Switch to Islamic Banking System: A Case Study of Oman 消费者决定转向伊斯兰银行体系的决定因素:阿曼的案例研究
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-02-03 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221143833
Kiran Faiza
Islamic banking is becoming a major alternative to conventional banking in many parts of the world, including the Gulf region. Although one of the prevalent reasons includes religious inclination, the variety of products added by Islamic banks contributes to customers switching from conventional to Islamic banking. This study analyses the factors responsible for customers’ decision to switch to Islamic banking in Oman through a questionnaire survey from Omani nationals in Muscat, Salalah, and Sohar. The data analysis tool included Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis using SPSS and AMOS software. Some of the variables incorporated in the study include physical quality, outcome quality, interaction quality, customer satisfaction, trust, price, religion, and social prestige, which are the dependent variables. The independent variable includes the decision to switch. These variables have been incorporated to evaluate their impact on customers’ decision-making to switch from conventional to Islamic banking. The results indicate that interaction quality significantly influences the switching decision, whereas physical environment and outcome quality could not influence the decision. Moreover, customer satisfaction and trust positively affect the decision. Religion significantly influences switching decisions, while the price and social prestige have no association with it. The findings suggest that religion is a strong determinant and positively impacts switching decisions. Additionally, the people of Oman consider the quality of service, customer service, and trust before switching decisions.
在包括海湾地区在内的世界许多地区,伊斯兰银行正成为传统银行的主要替代品。尽管其中一个普遍的原因包括宗教倾向,但伊斯兰银行增加的各种产品有助于客户从传统银行转向伊斯兰银行。本研究通过对马斯喀特、萨拉拉和苏哈尔的阿曼国民进行问卷调查,分析了客户决定在阿曼转向伊斯兰银行的因素。数据分析工具包括使用SPSS和AMOS软件进行的结构方程建模(SEM)分析。研究中包含的一些变量包括身体素质、结果质量、互动质量、客户满意度、信任、价格、宗教和社会声望,这些都是因变量。自变量包括切换的决定。纳入这些变量是为了评估其对客户从传统银行转向伊斯兰银行决策的影响。结果表明,交互质量显著影响切换决策,而物理环境和结果质量不影响切换决策。此外,客户满意度和信任对决策有积极影响。宗教显著影响转换决策,而价格和社会声望与之无关。研究结果表明,宗教是一个强大的决定因素,并对转换决策产生积极影响。此外,阿曼人民在做出转换决定之前会考虑服务质量、客户服务和信任。
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Tethered to Sanctions to the Nth Degree: The Rise and Fall of South Korea in Iran 被制裁束缚到第n度:韩国在伊朗的兴衰
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-02-03 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221140684
Shirzad Azad
Although the contemporary trajectory of South Korea’s rather multifaceted connections to Iran is a six-decade-long narrative, a great deal of its staggering successes and sobering setbacks took place just over the past decade and a half, coinciding with the ebbs and flows in the Iranian nuclear issue. The Korean policy response toward the sundry international sanctions levied against Iran in the wake of its contentious nuclear program played an indispensable role in the East Asian nation’s substantially fluctuating relationship with the Iranians in political, economic, technological, and cultural areas. The Koreans could outstrip almost all of their Western and Eastern rivals in Iran when they made it possible for the latter to secure parts of its badly needed economic and technological requirements denied to Tehran because of certain international impediments and restrictions, but the Korean omnipresence throughout the Iranian society set on a swift downward slope as soon as the East Asian state was no longer able to keep serving those sanctioned interests.
虽然韩国与伊朗的多重关系的当代轨迹长达60年之久,但它的许多惊人的成功和令人警醒的挫折都发生在过去的15年里,与伊朗核问题的起起伏伏相吻合。在伊朗核问题引发争议后,国际社会对伊朗实施了各种制裁,韩国的应对政策在政治、经济、技术、文化等领域与伊朗的关系急剧波动的过程中发挥了不可或缺的作用。韩国人可以超越伊朗几乎所有的西方和东方对手,因为他们使伊朗有可能获得其急需的部分经济和技术要求,因为某些国际障碍和限制,德黑兰无法获得这些要求,但一旦这个东亚国家不再能够继续为那些受制裁的利益服务,朝鲜人在伊朗社会的无处不在就开始迅速走下坡路。
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Religious Minorities in Secular Autocratic Arab Regimes: The Political Discrimination of Christians in Syria 世俗专制阿拉伯政权中的宗教少数群体:叙利亚基督徒的政治歧视
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221118498
Hani Anouti
The main focus of this article is the political discrimination and/or exclusion of Christian minorities in Syria, with a particular focus on the era of Hafez al-Assad. It begins by analyzing the characteristics of the political regime in the pre- and during Hafez al-Assad era and then tackles and measures the level of state secularization from 1950 until the al-Assad period. Political discrimination against the Christians of Syria will then be measured and identified to understand better how and why secular regimes in the Arab region discriminate against religious minorities at a political level, in this case, the Christians of Syria.
本文的主要焦点是叙利亚对基督教少数群体的政治歧视和/或排斥,特别关注哈菲兹·阿萨德时代。它首先分析了哈菲兹·阿萨德时代前后政治政权的特点,然后处理和衡量了1950年至阿萨德时期的国家世俗化水平。然后将衡量和确定对叙利亚基督徒的政治歧视,以更好地了解阿拉伯地区的世俗政权如何以及为什么在政治层面歧视宗教少数群体,在这种情况下是叙利亚基督徒。
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Order from Above: The Evolvement of Elections in Qatar 从上到下:卡塔尔选举的演变
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221100067
Ariel Admoni
Qatar slowly opened up to the democratic system. In 1963, the Qatari Sheikh made some concessions and allowed Municipal Council to be elected by all Qatari males. However, it appears to have faded from view without any noticeable impact. After the independence, Sheikh Khalifa believed that elections were neither necessary nor useful and his son, Sheikh Hamad, began to reform the country in this area. In April 2003, Qatari citizens voted on a constitution that included an election. Until 2021, Doha postponed plans for a partially elected Shura Council. Instead, members of the body, the top advisory body for the government, have been appointed by the Emir. On October 2, 2011, Qataris began voting in the Emirate’s first legislative election. The results were an example of the conservative view of the Qatari population. The conservative atmosphere also appeared in the sessions of another elected advisory council, the Central Municipal Council (CMC) and every reform or change can be initiated only by the leadership, specifically the Emir. The conservative atmosphere and the significant role of the Emir in the change appeared especially in the question of the women in the democratic process. However, during the years, the Al-Thani continued to closely monitor the implementation of the elections and make sure things would not go out of hand. Moreover, political participation limited different factions of the Al-Thani family and prominent families in the Emirate, sometimes connected through marriages to the ruling family.
卡塔尔慢慢地向民主制度开放。1963年,卡塔尔酋长做出了一些让步,允许市议会由所有卡塔尔男性选举产生。然而,它似乎已经从视野中消失,没有任何明显的影响。独立后,谢赫·哈利法认为选举既没有必要也没有用处,他的儿子谢赫·哈马德开始在这一领域改革国家。2003年4月,卡塔尔公民对包括选举在内的宪法进行了投票。直到2021年,多哈推迟了部分选举产生的舒拉理事会的计划。相反,该机构是政府的最高咨询机构,其成员由埃米尔任命。2011年10月2日,卡塔尔人开始在酋长国的第一次立法选举中投票。这一结果是卡塔尔人口保守观点的一个例子。保守的气氛也出现在另一个民选咨询委员会中央市政委员会的会议上,每一项改革或变革都只能由领导层,特别是埃米尔发起。保守的气氛和埃米尔在变革中的重要作用尤其体现在民主进程中的妇女问题上。然而,在这些年里,阿勒萨尼继续密切监测选举的执行情况,并确保事情不会失控。此外,政治参与限制了阿勒萨尼家族的不同派系和酋长国的显赫家族,有时通过与统治家族的婚姻联系在一起。
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Dynamics of Saudi Arabia–KRG Relations: From 2003 Iraq War to 2017 Referendum and Beyond 沙特阿拉伯与库尔德地区关系的动态:从2003年伊拉克战争到2017年公投及其后
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221099342
Sinem Cengiz
Numerous studies have examined the decades-old Saudi-Iranian rivalry, which has played out in various regional arenas, notably Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, and the Gulf. This article explores the place that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq occupies within this rivalry. As the KRG’s foreign relations have attracted scholarly attention since the late 1990s, the article examines the Saudi Arabia–KRG relations in the post-2003 Iraq War, with a special focus on growing Iranian influence in Iraq. The end of Saddam Hussein’s rule and the subsequent rise of Shiite-dominated governments in Baghdad has shaken the regional balance, bringing out Iran as an influential actor in the Middle East. This laid the foundation for new understandings in the Saudi regional policy as Riyadh emphasized its relations with Iraq and the KRG, which became a crucial factor that can balance and imbalance power in the Middle East. It argues that common concerns for security and relative gains paved the way for a closer relationship between Riyadh and Erbil to counter threats emanating from both Iran and ISIS. Through case-specific information to those interested in Kurdish politics and the Middle East, it not only delves into the driving forces behind Riyadh-Erbil relations but also aims to present the Saudi interpretation of the 2017 Kurdish referendum.
许多研究都考察了沙特和伊朗之间长达数十年的竞争,这种竞争在各个地区领域都有所体现,尤其是叙利亚、伊拉克、也门、黎巴嫩和海湾地区。本文探讨了伊拉克北部库尔德斯坦地区政府(KRG)在这场竞争中所占据的位置。自20世纪90年代末以来,KRG的外交关系引起了学术界的关注,本文考察了2003年伊拉克战争后沙特阿拉伯与KRG的关系,特别关注伊朗在伊拉克日益增长的影响力。萨达姆·侯赛因(Saddam Hussein)统治的终结以及随后什叶派主导的巴格达政府的崛起,动摇了地区平衡,使伊朗成为中东地区一个有影响力的角色。这为沙特对地区政策的新认识奠定了基础,沙特强调与伊拉克和库尔德地区政府(KRG)的关系,成为中东地区力量平衡和不平衡的关键因素。它认为,对安全和相对利益的共同关切为利雅得和埃尔比勒之间建立更密切的关系铺平了道路,以应对来自伊朗和ISIS的威胁。通过向那些对库尔德政治和中东感兴趣的人提供具体案例信息,它不仅深入研究了利雅得-埃尔比勒关系背后的驱动力,而且旨在展示沙特对2017年库尔德公投的解释。
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Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi (2021). The Nature of Tyranny and the Devastating Results of Oppression. Translated by Amer Chaikhouni. London: Hurst Publishers. Hardback, ISBN 9781787385481. Price: £45, 152 pp. 阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼·卡瓦基比(2021)。暴政的本质和压迫的毁灭性结果。阿米尔·柴霍尼译。伦敦:赫斯特出版社。精装本,ISBN 9781787385481。价格:45152英镑。
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221118723
Fadi Zatari
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“The Long Wait for Homecoming”: Looking at the Lives of Oil Field Wives in COVID-19 Times “回家的漫长等待”:看新冠肺炎时代油田妻子的生活
IF 0.7 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/23477989221116478
Anindita Chatterjee
The migration of Indians to Gulf countries can be traced back to the early twentieth century. With the discovery of oil in the region, Indian laborers began to migrate for a better livelihood, which also served as a valuable source of income for the country. Oil field workers who have migrated from India to the Gulf region are employed in oil rigs located in remote desert areas. They include both skilled as well as unskilled laborers and are employed in high-risk field-based jobs wherein family is not allowed. They work as international commuters and return home on a rotational basis at regular intervals. They constitute transnational families wherein most rely on telecommunication to connect with their family members in India and fulfill their social obligations. The economic, political, and sociocultural impact of migration has been studied by social scientists in substantial detail from the perspective of homeland as well as host land, but not much has been discussed about the experience of wives/spouses of oil field workers who are left behind at home even though their population is fairly large in India. Available data on the social and psychological impact of international migration suggest that such migration histories have both positive and negative impacts on transnational families. The COVID-19 pandemic, which affected the global scenario, did not spare them either. This article is a part of a meso-level study wherein a group of women residing in different parts of India was interviewed regarding their experience as wives of oil field workers in Gulf countries. Their husbands could not return home due to travel bans imposed by the Middle Eastern countries owing to the pandemic. This article attempts to look at significant issues pertaining to family and international migration to Gulf countries in the COVID times.
印度人向海湾国家的迁移可以追溯到二十世纪初。随着该地区石油的发现,印度劳工开始移民以获得更好的生计,这也是该国宝贵的收入来源。从印度移民到海湾地区的油田工人受雇于偏远沙漠地区的石油钻井平台。他们既有技术工人,也有非技术工人,受雇于不允许家庭参与的高风险现场工作。他们是国际通勤者,定期轮流回家。他们组成了跨国家庭,大多数人依靠电信与印度的家庭成员联系并履行社会义务。社会科学家从祖国和东道国的角度对移民的经济、政治和社会文化影响进行了大量详细的研究,但对油田工人的妻子/配偶的经历却没有太多讨论,尽管他们在印度的人口相当多。关于国际移徙的社会和心理影响的现有数据表明,这种移徙历史对跨国家庭既有积极影响,也有消极影响。新冠肺炎大流行影响了全球形势,也没有放过他们。这篇文章是一项中层研究的一部分,其中采访了居住在印度不同地区的一群妇女,了解她们作为海湾国家油田工人妻子的经历。由于疫情导致中东国家实施旅行禁令,他们的丈夫无法回国。本文试图探讨新冠疫情时期与家庭和国际移民到海湾国家有关的重大问题。
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