جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "منازعه اعراب و اسراییل" در نشریات گروه "علوم سیاسی"

The difference between the US and EU in views toward the Middle East peace process is rooted in the clash of interests found between the two parties and the different backgrounds of their presence in the region. Thus, the United States focuses largely on the peace process per se between Arabs and Israel and the two parties’ determination rather than the result of the process, whereas emphasizing the achievement of a positive result, Europe seeks to play a more active role in the region and to eradicate US monopoly. Disagreement between the European Union and the United States is entirely evident in the two parties’ positions particularly within the Venice and Luxembourg declarations. Referring to the background of the subject, this article examines the points of difference and divergence within the two powers’ attitudes and the reasons thereof. It also assesses their capacities and capabilities for the accomplishment of their ends.

This article seeks to explore Israel’s nuclear capability and analyze the country’s nuclear deterrence strategy. Confirming the suggestion that Israel possesses nuclear capability, the author views the country’s ambiguous policy regarding nuclear weapons consistentwith its objectives in the Middle East. He then takes the assumption and necessary conditions for the success of deterrence strategy into account and on this basis, he reveals the causes of failure of Israel’s deterrence strategy in the region. From his point of view, the Al-Quds Intifada and the Lebanese Hezbollah’s victory in south Lebanon are the most vivid examples of the failure of such a strategy.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the renowned Egyptian sociologist, is one of the scholars who has focused his studies on social developments in the Arab Middle East. In the present article, referring to the concept of ‘civil society’ and its connection with such concepts as democracy, he reveals the impact of the universal trend of democratization on the relationship between the state and society in the Arab World. In his viewpoint, in the 1980s and 1990s, a trilateral struggle has been under way among the ruling regimes, Islamist movements and institutions of civil society to gain and preserve power, and a bilateral coalition has occasionally emerged against the third actor. He refers to the
instances of Palestine, Algeria and Egypt; he considers the first as an example of ‘Islamist Fear of Democracy’ and regards the second as an instance of ‘State Fear of Democracy.’ Egyptian situation in his view, is more complicated and calls it resident triangle. Despite the fact that the article has been authored some time ago, and the Arab Middle East has seen enormous changes since then, the article’s academic achievements seem to remain learning and considerable.