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Artists and the Arab Uprisings
Regional artists can play a positive role in shaping public debate and supporting democratic transition in the Middle East. This report explores the challenges artists have faced since the Arab uprisings, U.S. government programs to support arts in the region, and the wide array of nongovernmental activities to engage Arab artists, offering recommendations to improve support for these artists.
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بناء شبكات الاعتدال الإسلامي
جاء هذا الكتاب ليبرز آليات وخبرات الولايات المتحدة المعتبرة في بناء ودعم وتمويل شبكات من الأفراد المؤمنين بالأفكار الحرة والديموقراطية إذ أنها ترى أن من واجبها القيام بدور محوري في تقديم الدعم للمسلمين \"المعتدلين\" وهذا الكتاب موجهة بالأصل لصانع القرار الأمريكي لإستكمال البعد المعرفي للسياسات الأمريكية في مواجهة ما وسموه ب\"التطرف الإسلامي\" فهو توصل لواقع سياسي ولا تستبقه بالتنظير وهو ما يلزم إستصحابه عند قراءة التقرير إذ أن المصطلح المستخدم ليس مطلقا بل هو يعبر عن رؤية متحيزة بطبيعتها لإمبريالية معرفية.
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Internet Freedom and Political Space
The Internet is a new battleground between governments that censor online content and those who advocate freedom for all to browse, post, and share information online. This report examines how Internet freedom may transform state-society relations in nondemocratic regimes, using case studies of China, Egypt, Russia, and Syria, and also draws parallels between Internet freedom and Radio Free Europe programs during the Cold War.
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The Challenge of Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries
Deterrence of nuclear use through the threat of retaliation could be highly problematic in many plausible conflict scenarios with nuclear-armed regional adversaries. This could compel U.S. leaders to temper their military and political objectives if they come into conflict with these states. This book examines the reasons behind this important shift in the international security environment and its strategic and force planning implications.
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Building Moderate Muslim Networks
Radical and dogmatic interpretations of Islam have gained ground in recent years in many Muslim societies via extensive Islamist networks spanning the Muslim world and the Muslim diaspora communities of North America and Europe. Although a majority throughout the Muslim world, moderates have not developed similar networks to amplify their message and to provide protection from violence and intimidation. With considerable experience fostering networks of people committed to free and democratic ideas during the Cold War, the United States has a critical role to play in leveling the playing field for Muslim moderates. The authors derive lessons from the U.S. and allied Cold War network-building experience, determine their applicability to the current situation in the Muslim world, assess the effectiveness of U.S. government programs of engagement with the Muslim world, and develop a Â\"road mapÂ\" to foster the construction of moderate Muslim networks.
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Ion-Pair Complexation in Moderately Strong Aqueous Acids
This paper is a continutaion of a discussion started in a previous Journal article [1989, 66, 148--153] by Russo and Hanania that addressed the fact that ion association in aqueous solution is often overlooked in undergraduate curriculum. Their discussion focused on solid ionic compounds where, the one here focuses on protonic acids, which need not be solids before dissolving in water.
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State Behavior and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime-even as they formally support it. Anchored by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is the constellation of agreements, initiatives, and norms that work in concert to regulate nuclear material and technology. The essays gathered here show that attitudes on nonproliferation depend on a \"complex, contingent decision calculus,\" as states continually gauge how their actions within the regime will affect trade, regional standing, and other interests vital to any nation.
The first four essays take theoretical approaches to such topics as a framework for understanding challenges to collective action; clandestine proliferation under the Bush and Obama administrations and its impact on regime legitimacy; threat construction as a lens through which to view resistance to nonproliferation measures; and the debate over the relationship between nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation. Essays comprising the second part of the book use regional and state-specific case studies to look at how U.S. security guarantees affect the willingness of states to support the regime; question the perceived spoiler role of a \"vocal minority\" within the Non-Aligned Movement; challenge notions that Russia is using the regime to build a coalition hostile to the United States; contrast nonproliferation strategies among Latin American countries; and explain the lag in adoption of an Additional Protocol by some Middle East and North African countries.
Getting countries to cooperate on nonproliferation efforts is an ongoing challenge. These essays show that success must be measured not only by how many states join the effort but also by how they participate once they join.
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How Supportive of the Nonproliferation Regime are the United States and Its Allies?
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE INDICATES that the protection offered by a U.S. security guarantee often formalized in a bilateral or multilateral treaty is one of the most effective measures in controlling nuclear proliferation.¹ in numerous cases once states were offered U.S. security guarantees, they ratified the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and adherents to the precepts of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Even an implicit understanding of protection such as the relationship between Sweden, a formally neutral country during the cold War, and the United States was enough to convince them not to acquire nuclear weapons.² in some cases the
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