Increasing global oil prices are an important and essential goal of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia (KSA) to finance its economic and social development plans and to determine the …

Following the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, analyses of political change
in Egypt have primarily focused on domestic processes and paid relatively less attention to …

Names: Cavatorta, Francesco, editor.| Storm, Lise, editor.| Resta, Valeria, editor. Title:
Routledge handbook on political parties in the Middle East and North Africa/edited by …

The rise of Islamism following the Arab Spring has renewed interest in the democratic
credibility of Islamist parties and movements. Focusing on the case of Mauritania's Islamists …

Analysis of North African revolt against authoritarianism, known as the 'Arab Spring',
embraced reductionist explanations such as the social media, youth unemployment and …

This article examines the forms of interplay between the foreign policy of the Islamic
Republic of Mauritania and the international standing recently gained by some of the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically compare and contrast the effect of the
nature of the political regime vs the political instability (PI) on real output in a group of …

This chapter examines the background of the presidential system in the Nigerian
democratisation process. As outlined in the previous chapters, Nigeria's political trajectory in …

The series focuses on presidents throughout the world, including both directly elected and
indirectly elected presidents, both single-country and comparative studies of presidential …

The Southern Mediterranean is a strategic region for the EU. Since the inception of the
Barcelona process in the mid-1990s, the EU has provided extensive economic and political …