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The Middle East Quartet of Mediators: Understanding Multiparty Mediation in the Middle East Peace Process
… peace agreement? The object of study is the Middle East Quartet of Mediators from its formation in 2002 to the Annapolis Conference in November, 2007.</p> <p>Although some progress was made during this period, no formal peace agreement was reached and therefore, the ultimate objective of the …
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MIT-Middle East Multi-Party Collaboration
The Middle East comprises much of the Arab world, including Egypt and Israel. It is the birthplace of three major world religions. The modern history of the region has been marked with a series of geopolitical upheavals that have fragmented the countries that make up this place. In August of 2020, …
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BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
… proliferation is a significant concern in the Middle East. Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan have closely associated themselves with the United States. These nations are targets of American adversaries such as Iran, Syria, and terrorist groups. Findings of this study revealed the following: …
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Region-Building in the Arab Middle East
… and practice of region-building in the Arab Middle East. Despite strong aspirations for a cohesive regional order, the Arab Middle East has been one of the least successful regions to achieve positive forms of consistent cooperation. Rather than attributing this failure to primordial factors …
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American Imperialism in the Middle East: 1920 – 1950
… position and became a dominant power in the Middle East. During the 1920s, the rise to power began with American oil companies pursuing economic opportunities in the region’s oil fields. Britain maintained the predominant position in the Middle East until the end of the World War II, but the …
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Turkey and the Middle East: threats and opportunities
… Cold War and the Second Gulf War affected the Middle East prodoundly. The role of regional countries changed when the end of the superpower competition transformed frozen animosities into new conflict areas. In this context, Turkey extremely involved in regional politics. During the 1989-2000 …
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Democracy And The Press In The Middle East
<p>This paper examines relationships between Arab media and several different institutions including government in general, democracy specifically, and Islam. The primary purpose of this research is to gain not only broad, but also in-depth understanding of Arab governments and their control of …
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Landscape planning objectives for developing the arid Middle East
… aid decision-makers in the arid regions of the Middle East in formulating a comprehensive and operational set of landscape planning objectives. This purpose is sought through a dual approach; the first deals with objectives as the cornerstone of the landscape planning process, and the second …
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Geography of the Middle East through the Western Lens: A Survey of Films Set in the Middle East and Filmed in the American Southwest
… the history of cinema, the geography of the Middle East has been manipulated into a vision designed for Western audiences that is strikingly disjointed from reality. </p> <p>The foundation of modern Orientalist interpretations of the Middle East in film can be seen in the early decades of the …
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Exploring medication error causality and reporting in the Middle East.
… error-related research conducted within the Middle East has been noted to be of poor quality. The aim of this thesis was to investigate issues relating to medication error causality and suboptimal reporting of medication errors, with the intention of contributing to the development of …
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Globalising employee engagement: myths and reality; a Middle East perspective.
… in this study by companies operating in the Middle and Near East regions. Employee engagement has been of growing concern to business leaders as well as occupational psychologists, since it was claimed to relate to organisational productivity and long term success. Despite this growing …
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The geopolitical context of NATO's role in the Middle East
The role of NATO in the Middle East region, though dating to the mid1990s, has attracted attention only after the events of 11 September 2001. Even then, no comprehensive analysis has been undertaken. Questions remain unanswered concerning the limits of NATO's role in the region and whether or not …
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The Middle East Peace Process and U.S. Special Interest Groups
… by studying their influence in relation to the Middle East Peace Process. This author builds on his first hand experiences of living in Palestine and the U.S., and analytical tools he has acquired by studying the role of United Nations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as U.S. history, …
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Political and Economic Understandings of Democracy in the Middle East
… high public support for democracy in one of the least democratic regions of the world, the Middle East/North Africa. It proposes that the cross-national surveys used to identify this democracy paradox contribute to the apparent misalignment of public opinion and political structure. While in most …
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Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Priorities and Effectiveness
… contemporary Russian Foreign Policy toward the Middle East. Six factors are identified as most critical to Russian foreign policy in the region: Islamic terrorism, arms transfers, natural resources, influence over former Soviet Spaces, general trade, and great power status. With rare exceptions, …
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New Middle East Cold War: Saudi Arabia and Iran's Rivalry
… the strategic imbalance and direction of the Middle East’s regional politics. The 1979 Iranian Revolution catapulted these two states into an embittered rivalry. The fall of Saddam Hussein following the 2003 U.S. led invasion, the establishment of a Shi’ite Iraq and the 2011 Arab Uprisings …
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Six Sigma Implementation in Middle East Organisations: An Empirical Study
… decade, the rapid economic development in the Middle East has encouraged organisations to implement modem quality management and strategic initiatives such as Six Sigma to ensure continuous improvement and achieved excellence. Six Sigma is a comprehensive business strategic quality programme …
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Public-private large-scale downtown redevelopment in the Middle East
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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