BY DORTHE POSSING A report, “Being a Muslim woman in Denmark,” published in March 2009 and commissioned by the former Danish Minister for Gender Equality, Karen Jespersen, concluded that the circulation of “Islamist” discourses on the Internet and Arabic satellite-TV put young Danish Muslim women’s notions of equality and citizenship at risk. The logic was [...]
BY SOLON SIMMONS There is no part of the world more crucial to the strategic interests of the United States as is the Middle East. While the traditional problems of the regulation of international affairs are at play there, Arab language satellite channels have created a new force in the region, and Al Jazeera is [...]
BY BASSAM HADDAD The state’s relationship with business communities can provide both detrimental and beneficial economic outcomes. One factor that impinges on successful development can be the state-business nexus. Is such underdevelopment a function of certain cultures? A study of how state and business actors come together in informal economic networks and shape patterns of [...]
BY RANDA KAYYALI Supply and demand has fuelled the circuits of production at the global level for many years now. Like other products, the offerings from higher education institutions have changed over the years. From the 1960s on, student exchanges were the dominant form of international education, but there are newer forms of global outreach [...]
BY JAMES P. PFIFFNER President George W. Bush proclaimed the official position of the United States on torture on June 26, 2003, the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. “Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right,” he said. “The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture, and [...]
BY CHRIS COYNE Among many other problems, the current U.S. occupation of Iraq suffers from a problem of incentive misalignment. From the beginning of the occupation, the United States made very clear its firm commitment to stay the course. This provided a disincentive to members of the Iraqi populace as well as to Iraq’s neighbors [...]
BY DAVID DAVIS The coalition intervention in Iraq of the spring of 2003 was carried out to depose a cruel and heinous dictator, Saddam Hussein. There has been much press and conjecture about other reasons for the intervention. What is little debated however, is that the Iraq that the coalition found was in great need. [...]
BY SAMEEKSHA DESAI Microfinance, the provision of financial services to people who typically cannot access such services (for example, providing credit to the poor) creates and builds upon the potential to regenerate and reinvest initial funds. However promising its applications and benefits may be, implementing microfinance in Iraq’s post conflict context presents major challenges to [...]