Vol. 9 No. 053 (2021): Issue 053

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 53nd issue of the bimonthly peer-reviewed political science and international relations journal, Siyasat Arabiya. This issue includes the following articles "Why Did the "Baath State" in Syria Collapse?" by Marwan Kabalan; "The Mahdi Army and the Sadrist Movement in Iraq: The Struggle for Transformation" by Haider Saeed; "Soft Power in Action: Towards a Theoretical Framework" by Ali Bakir; and "Constitutional Law and Legitimization of the Political System in Morocco: A Political Sociology of Science" by Mohamed Goulferni. The issue includes a paper on the Arab Opinion Index by Hicham Raïq and Mohamed Ourya "Arab People's view on Political Systems: Comparative 103 Study Using Principal Component Analysis", followed by the documentation of Milestones in Democratic Transition in the Arab World and Palestine over two months, 1/9-31/10/2021, along with select Documents of Democratic Transition in the Arab World. The issue ends with Amer Katbeh review entitled "The MENA Region between Democratization and Autocracy Studies: Literature Review and Theoretical Reflections before and after the Arab Uprisings".

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Published: 2021-11-01

Articles

  • Why Did the “Baath State” in Syria Collapse? Cited once

    Author: Marwan Kabalan
    7-34
    This paper investigates the factors that have led to the collapse of Baath-ruled Syria. It argues that the abandonment of the rentier – distributive economic system that had traditionally propped...
  • The Mahdi Army and the Sadrist movement

    Author: Haider Saeed
    36-59
    The study concerns the armed Shiism in Iraq and its most prominent embodiment, the Mahdi Army (MA). It deals with the relationship between the MA and the Sadrist movement, as a case og the...
  • The MENA Region between Democratization and Autocracy Studies

    Author: Amer Katbeh
    ​Through literature reviews (mainly in English and German), this review sheds light on the analytical approaches prevalent in the study of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and their...
  • Soft power in action: Towards a theoretical framework Cited 3 times

    Author: Ali Bakir
    61-82
    The concept of soft power continues to receive significant attention from researchers, relevant actors in the international community, and small and rising powers alike. This paper discusses the...
  • Constitutional Law and Legitimization of the Political System in Morocco: A Political Sociology of Science

    Author: Mohamed Goulferni
    83-99
    The concept of soft power continues to receive significant attention from researchers, relevant actors in the international community, and small and rising powers alike. This paper discusses the...
  • Arab People's view on Political Systems: Comparative Study Using Principal Component Analysis

    Author: Mohamed Ourya, Hicham Raïq
    103-117
    This article is an attempt to study the legitimization of the Moroccan political system by constitutional jurisprudence, considered as a concrete process within the science of constitutional law,...
  • Milestones in Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    121-129
    The Arab Opinion Index (2019/ 2020) offers interesting data on public opinion about political regimes. Our study used Principal Component Analysis to evaluate the public opinion trends toward the...
  • Documents of Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    130-170
    This section lists the most prominent political documents related to the democratic transition in the Arab world. In this issue we publish documents related to the reaction of Tunisian political...
  • Palestine Over Two Months

    171-176
    العقلاني. ومثاليًا، يتمتع الناس بدرجة معينة من الاختيار فيما يتعلق بالمنطق الذي يريدون استخدامه لتحقيق أهدافهم بأفضل طريقة ولتحقيق مصالحهم". Gero Erdmann & Ulf Engel, "Neopatrimonialism...