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Nevertheless, through all the contacts over the years since Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat went to Jerusalem, relationships have developed between Arabs and Israelis on many levels, including the official level. We now are at a stage where a considerable majority of Israelis support the peace process and where Mr. Arafat shows increasing sensitivity to the security concerns of Israelis. We now a...

The pioneering work of Lewis Fry Richardson on modelling the arms race raised expectations that mathematics can contribute to peace and conflict resolution. Based upon Richardson’s model, various extensions are discussed, with a focus on time-discrete nonlinear models showing chaotic behavior. As a general framework for the modelling of conflict and cooperation in international security a multi...

Great Power Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. More than afty years have passed since Hans Morgenthau introduced “realism” as an approach to the study of international relations. Since then, the approach has withstood not only a steady assault from such external quarters as liberal institutionalism, the democratic peace school, and “constructivism” but also a marked divisive tendency. Splin...

Iran’s foreign policy toward international organizations has always oscillated between divergence and convergence, depending on the status of the country in question and the statesmen's point of the view. This study aimed to examine the status of international organizations in Iran’s foreign policy. A divergent approach to international organizations was adopted during 1981-1988 and 2005-2013. ...

Location: occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) with ability to travel to all districts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip 1. Background, purpose and use of the evaluation The UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equa...