The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...

This article examines the content of the Middle East term in terms of international relations. The term of East which goes back to ancient times, has been used to describe the rest, outside of Europe in cultural expressions instead of a geographical region to portray opposite world for centuries. Since the Crusades, East (Orient) was identified with Islam and West (Occident) became identical wi...

Middle East is a strategic region because of its abundant oil reserves, hostile struggles among the countries, and threat of the radical groups. The countries of this region spend a large amount of their annual budgets on buying weapons and war armaments. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of military expenditures on economic growth of oil and non-oil Middle East countries by a dy...

the recently emerged middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (mers-cov) emerged in the middle east region in 2012. the virus is phylogenetically related to bat cov, but other animal species like camels and goats may potentially act as an intermediate host by spreading the virus to humans. this virus is thought to cause a severe disease in patients with underlying comorbidities. laboratory ...

background: the global burden of conduct disorder is a major public health concern. although there are different reports on the prevalence of conduct disorder in different middle eastern countries, to date, no research has reviewed them. therefore, we aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on the literature and present the prevalence of conduct disorder among children and adoles...

due to easy availability of cheaper raw material and increase in new applications, the use of polyolefins in variousindustries is becoming a major priority. the middle east region, on account of its vast oil and gas reserves has,in the last decade or so, been developing many new petrochemical complexes with their expansion into colossalpolyolefin production capacities. the predictions are that ...

realism and neo realism as the dominant. approach in the studies of international relations and foreign policy with their emphasis on states and the dominance of structure over the international system do not believe in the role of ethnicity in the foreign policy of states. however, with the end of the cold war, we witness the impact of ethnicity on the security arrangements of sub-systems, esp...