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The Failure to Notice
The policy of containing the Soviet Union and reducing its influence throughout the world colored the thinking of the U.S. foreign policymakers. This policy did not only produce... -
Had everything worked according to plan, US foreign policy toward the Middle East would have produced “The Geneva Accords”[1] rather than the Camp David Accords; and instead of...
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The Camp David Accords-Cold War
It was suggested in my previous essay that the Camp David Accords were not the original goal of the American foreign policy toward the Middle East during President Carter’s... -
The Imbalance of Power
Henry Kissinger writes more than 800 pages to argue that an international system based on balance of power is a better system for conducting foreign policy and serving national... -
This essay would examine the American assumptions about the future of the world after the end of the Second World War, and explain why the Soviet war aims appeared to have...
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American Isolationism: a Myth?
To be able to determine to what extent isolation was a decisive force in dictating the direction of the U.S. foreign policy or merely a myth, one should shed some light on the... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Reluctant Liberalisation: A Democratic Audit of Jordan, 1989-2019 Adli Hawwari 2020 First published in the United Kingdom 2019 by Ud al-Nad Ltd Copyright © Adli... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
In the following pages, I shall re-ask the fifteen overarching questions, and restate the marks given by the twenty-four assessors and six experts. I shall then give my... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Preface Introduction Jordan: History and Political System Assessment: 1989-2010 1. Citizenship, Law and Rights 1.1: Nationhood and Citizenship 1.2: Rule of Law and... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Acronyms and List of Interviews
Acronyms and Abbreviations ACC = Anti-Corruption Commission in Jordan AFP = Agence France-Presse (French News Agency) AI = Amnesty International AVC = Audio-Visual... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
On 8 November 2019, Jordan marked the thirtieth anniversary of what was hoped to be a transformation of the country’s political system into a democratic one. The initial stage... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
A democratic audit, as defined by Beetham (1994, p. 25), ‘is the simple but ambitious project of assessing the state of democracy in a single country’. It is accurate to suggest... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Assessment: 1989-2010, Citizenship, Law and Rights
In this chapter, I present, analyse, and discuss the data gathered through two questionnaires referred to previously. I follow the order and headings of categories and... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Representative and Accountable Government
In this chapter, I present, analyse, and discuss the data pertaining to the second category in the democratic audit: representative and accountable government. It has six... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Civil Society and Popular Participation
In this chapter, I continue the presentation and discussion of the data of the democratic audit. This chapter deals with the third major category: civil society and popular... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
This is the fourth and final major category in the democratic audit. It examines the external influences on democracy in Jordan as well as Jordan’s influence abroad in support... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Detailed Assessment: 1989-2010
This chapter widens the scope of the assessment by examining more of the data collected in the long questionnaire, which has ninety questions. I propose to cover two questions... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Representative & Accountable Government
This part of the long questionnaire consists of six subcategories: free and fair elections (2.1); the democratic role of political parties (2.2); effective and responsive... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Civil Society & Popular Participation
This part of the long questionnaire consists of three subcategories: the media in a democratic society (3.1); political participation (3.2); decentralization (3.3). 3.1:... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
This part of the long questionnaire consists of two subcategories: external influences on the country’s democracy (4.1); and the country’s democratic impact abroad (4.2).... -
Jordan: A Democratic Audit
Updated Appraisal: 2011-2019 In the following pages, I shall re-ask the fifteen overarching questions, and restate the marks given by the twenty four assessors and six...
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