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3712. China’s Black Sea Ambitions
- Author:
- Yevgen Sautin
- Publication Date:
- 05-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Abstract:
- The People’s Republic of China is actively engaging Black Sea littoral states through various initiatives to open new markets for Chinese goods, facilitate the acquisition of valuable or strategic local industries, and offer loans for large development projects
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
3713. The Sources of Post-Soviet Conduct
- Author:
- William Spiegelberger
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Abstract:
- The Russian Federation’s recently provocative foreign policy results in part from structural weakness in the Russian domestic regime, a quasi-feudal system that requires certain actions abroad to maintain itself in power at home.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
3714. Why Did Greece Turn Against Russia?
- Author:
- Dimitar Bechev
- Publication Date:
- 02-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Abstract:
- In the summer of 2018, Greece and Russian Federation went through one of the worst crises in their traditionally friendly relations. The falling out was triggered by allegations of Russian meddling in Greek domestic politics
- Topic:
- International Cooperation
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
3715. The Future of US Strategic Competition with China
- Author:
- Atlantic Council
- Publication Date:
- 07-2019
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Atlantic Council
- Abstract:
- Please join the Atlantic Council’s Asia Security Initiative, housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, for a public panel discussion on forward-looking recommendations for the future of US-China relations and US strategy towards China. How should the United States and its allies work together to respond to China’s ongoing rise? What are the advantages and limits of the current US approach? Ultimately, can the United States and China be both strategic competitors and, at least in some areas, strategic cooperators at the same time? The Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security works to develop sustainable, nonpartisan strategies to address the most important security challenges facing the United States and the world. The Center honors General Brent Scowcroft’s legacy of service and embodies his ethos of nonpartisan commitment to the cause of security, support for US leadership in cooperation with allies and partners, and dedication to the mentorship of the next generation of leaders.
- Topic:
- International Political Economy
- Political Geography:
- China and America
3716. Fracturing Communities :Aid Distribution in a Palestinian Camp
- Author:
- Perla Issa
- Publication Date:
- 03-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Abstract:
- This article examines the practices of humanitarian aid distribution from the perspective of aid recipients rather than providers through an immersion in the daily home life of Palestinian residents of Nahr al-Barid refugee camp (north Lebanon) in 2011. It argues that in the name of distributing aid fairly, humanitarian aid providers put in place a pervasive system of surveillance to monitor, evaluate, and compare residents’ misery levels by relying on locally recruited aid workers. This regime of visibility was designed to be one directional; NGOs never disclosed how much aid they had available, nor when or how it would be distributed. The inclusion of local aid workers in this opaque framework turned a process that relied on community and neighborhood ties into an impersonal machine that fostered doubt and suspicion and ultimately hindered the community’s ability to engage in collective political action.
- Topic:
- Humanitarian Aid, International Security, International Affairs, and Occupation
- Political Geography:
- Palestine
3717. From Haifa to Ramallah (and Back): New/Old Palestinian Literary Topography
- Author:
- Amal Eqeiq
- Publication Date:
- 03-2019
- Content Type:
- Research Paper
- Institution:
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Abstract:
- This article explores border crossing and the Palestinian city as a literary metropolis—two major themes in the works of emerging Palestinian novelists in Israel. It looks at the “re-Palestinization” of urban space by writers who belong to a post-Oslo generation of Palestinian intellectuals that left villages and small towns in Israel to go and study, work, and live in the city. What distinguishes the literature of this generation is its negotiation of border crossing in a fragmented geography and its engagement with the city as a space of paradoxical encounter between a national imaginary and a settler-colonial reality. Based on a critical reading of their works, the article argues that Adania Shibli and Ibtisam Azem challenge colonial border discourse, exposing the ongoing Zionist erasure of the Palestinian city and creating a new topography for Palestinian literature. The article also traces the role of these writers in the “twinning” of Haifa and Ramallah starting in the late 1990s, and it examines how this literary and cultural “sisterhood” informs spatial resistance.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Palestine
3718. Ibrahim Nasarallah's Palestine Comedies: Liberating the Nation Form
- Author:
- Nora Parr
- Publication Date:
- 03-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Abstract:
- Conceptually linked, noncontiguous, and undeniably national, Ibrahim Nasrallah’s book series Al-milhat al-filastiniyya (The Palestine Comedies) breaks conceptual ground. Told across twelve volumes, the Comedies represents the long-called- for Palestinian national novel, though in unconventional form. The series uses diverse literary devices, including intertextuality and the archetype of the twin, to demonstrate how formal innovations can redirect assumptions about what constitutes not only a national novel, but also a nation. The series reimagines relationships between space, time, and people, giving narrative shape to a community so often imagined as fragments. Abandoning the retrospective prerequisite of bounded sovereign space and homogeneous, linear time, the Comedies imagines a “nation constellation.” A close examination of two novels within the series, A‛ras amna (2004) and Tifl al-mimhat (2000), shows how Palestinian relationships can be imagined outside existing national logics. It reads the constellation as an alternative nation form that can both encompass colonial frameworks and free the delimitation of Palestine from the dominance of power structures that only begin with the nation-state
- Topic:
- International Affairs, Power Politics, and Linguistics
- Political Geography:
- Palestine
3719. Richard Falk: "Citizen Pilgrim" In the role of UN Rapporteur
- Author:
- Mandy Turner
- Publication Date:
- 03-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Abstract:
- Richard Falk’s quest to combine academic scholarship with political activism is witnessed throughout his lifework, but perhaps especially so during his tenure as United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, a position he held from 2008 to 2014. Falk is a vocal critic of Israel’s occupation and a staunch supporter of Palestinian self- determination, positions that have drawn strong condemnation from Israel and its supporters, but praise from Palestinians and their supporters. There is little doubt that Falk’s work has had a huge influence on public debate and activism pertaining to this issue, both within Israel-Palestine as well as globally. This article outlines Falk’s scholarship and activism regarding Palestine, analyzes the post of UN special rapporteur in general, reviews both criticism of and support for Falk’s work, and assesses Falk’s concept of the “citizen pilgrim.” It concludes by reflecting on what this reveals about the experience of praxis for politically engaged academics.
- Topic:
- International Organization and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Palestine
3720. U.S Recognition of Golan Heights Annexation: Testament to Our Times
- Author:
- Victor Kattan
- Publication Date:
- 03-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Abstract:
- On 25 March 2019, U.S. president Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as part of Israel. The Golan Heights proclamation, which endorses Israel’s annexation of the territory captured from Syria in the 1967 war, was issued two weeks before the Israeli general election in a photo-op with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Undermining internationally agreed-upon norms prohibiting states from recognizing the annexation of territory by force, the proclamation could have detrimental consequences for the international legal order, providing a precedent for other states to take steps to annex territory they claim is necessary for their defense.
- Topic:
- International Political Economy, International Affairs, and Occupation
- Political Geography:
- Israel and Palestine