Vol. 13 No. 072 (2025): Issue 072

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 72nd issue of Siyasat Arabiya, a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of political science and international relations. This issue contains the following articles: “Transnational Activism and the Evolution of Human Rights in Post-2013 Coup Egypt" by Moataz El Fegiery; “Above the Hierarchy: The Legal Status of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Light of the Constitutional Court's Political Role" by Rashad Twam and MahmoudAbu Sway; “Political Transition in Syria: Challenges and Perspectives for State Building and Political Institutional Reform" by Emad Alali; “China and Its Foreign Relations through the Lens of Its Strategic Culture: The Case of Sino-Qatari Relations (1988–2024)" by Mohamed Mesfer; “Paradiplomacy and State's Foreign Function: Adaptation or Restructuring?" by Inass Abdulsada Ali and Hayder Sabah Kadhim. The translation section includes Alexander Wendt's “The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory" by Ahmed Qasem Hussein. This issue also documents key events in the democratic transition in the Arab world and Palestine over the two-month period from 1 November to 31 December 2024. Additionally, it features Hiba Amir's review of Géopolitique du sport by Pascal Boniface.

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Published: 2025-01-01

Articles

  • Political Transition in Syria: Challenges and Perspectives for State Building and Political Institutional Reform

    Author: Emad Alali
    52-70
    The political transition in Syria after the fall of Assad regime faces many interpretations and challenges. This study attempts to identify the situational determinants that form the general...
  • Paradiplomacy and State’s Foreign Function: Adaptation or Restructuring?

    Author: Inass Abdulsada Ali, Hayder Sabah Kadhim
    86-100
    In the past two decades of the twentieth century, global politics witnessed significant transformations in the structures of international actors and their patterns of interaction. Among these was...
  • Géopolitique du sport Cited once

    Author: Hiba Amir
    149-155
    ​This report documents the most significant Palestinian developments and events related to the Arab-Israeli conflict during the period from November 1 to December 31, 2024.​
  • Transnational Activism and the Evolution of Human Rights in Post-2013 Coup Egypt

    Author: Moataz El Fegiery
    9-24
    The paper focuses on transnational human rights activism and its efforts to influence the human rights landscape in Egypt. It argues that the global human rights system has provided a space for...
  • Above the Hierarchy: The Legal Status of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Light of the Constitutional Court's

    Author: Rashad Twam, Mahmoud Abu Sway
    25-50
    This study focuses on the legal status of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence (PDI) issued in 1988 by the Palestinian National Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in...
  • China and Its Foreign Relations through the Lens of Its Strategic Culture: The Case of Sino-Qatari Relations (1988–2024)

    Author: Mohamed Mesfer
    71-85
    China’s foreign policy is concerned with strengthening relations with states of significance in the world, whether large or small. Its strategic culture plays a key role in shaping its vision of...
  • The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory Cited 4 times

    Author: Alexander Wendt; Ahmed Qasem Hussein (Translator)
    103-130
    This text was fundamental to the crystallization of structuralist theory in international relations. It addresses one of the discipline’s major dilemmas: the dialectic of the relationship between...
  • Documents of Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    This section highlights the most significant political documents related to democratic transition in the Arab world. In this issue, we publish documents from Iraq, Syria, and Tunisia covering...

  • Democratic Transition in the Arab World

    This report documents the key milestones of democratic transition in the Arab world during the period from November 1 to December 31, 2024.

  • Palestine Over Two Months

    This report documents the most significant Palestinian developments and events related to the Arab-Israeli conflict during the period from November 1 to December 31, 2024.