Three experiments investigated how perceived foreign threats to the United States can influence Americans' endorsement of assimilation and multiculturalism as models for foreign and domestic intergroup relations. The initial study, conducted during the 6-month anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (9/11), discovered that a diverse group of Americans preferred assimilation as ...

Abstract This article investigates the emergence and puzzling termination of Turkish–Israeli alliance (1996–2011). While a litany studies has offered changing material circumstances, conservative agenda Turkey's AKP government, other exogenous factors as possible explanations, these fail to capture complexity situation. Instead, this applies modified neoclassical realist framework analysis that...

extended abstract 1. introduction geopolitical genome is the potential of a country. as the genomics is the study of hundreds or perhaps thousands of simultaneous genetic reactions for identifying the main causes of disease and understanding the mechanism of an organism, the activation and extinguishing of the geopolitical genomes are those adopted policies based on the geographical and human p...

Population-based seroepidemologic data on mumps have not been available in Israel since 1987, and the effects of mass immigration from the Commonwealth of Independent States during the 1990s have not been investigated. We conducted a seroprevalence study of mumps antibodies among 353 Israeli military recruits aged 18-19, based on a representative sample of sera collected in 1999. The overall se...

The foreign policy of the United Arab Emirates has one fundamental goal: the enhancement through its dealings with foreign governments, individuals and organizations of the prosperity, stability, power and independence of the country and its citizens. In this general sense, UAE foreign policy is similar to that of other countries. There are, however, two factors that distinguish UAE foreign pol...

in recent decades, foreign policy of middle east countries has been deeply affected by increasing ethnic and religious identities. on the other hand, realist approach has still remained as dominant logic for analyzing of politics in this region. this article based on constructivist approach, analyses the impact of ethnic identity factor on foreign policy of middle east states and emphasizes on ...

Jon Hanssen-Bauer argumenterer for at tostatsløsning lever og kritikken av norsk politikk rammer feil. I denne replikken jeg vi analyserer den samme virkeligheten, men har veldig forskjellig forståelse hva politiske virkeligheten betyr situasjonen på bakken i Israel/Palestina. Det finnes ikke noe godt alternativ til tostatsløsningen, verdenssamfunnet (inkludert Norge) må jobbe med realiteten so...

Democracy requires that citizens’ opinions play some role in shaping policy outcomes, including in foreign policy. Yet, although the literature on public opinion and foreign policy has made great progress in recent decades, scholars have reached no consensus concerning what the public thinks, or thinks about, with respect to foreign policy; how it comes to hold those opinions; or whether those ...