The article discusses the political effect of print media liberalization in Kuwait based on content analysis of Arabic language newspapers in the 2009 parliamentary election. The analysis found no systematic...

The article explores the promotion and reception of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Arab world, taking Syria and Dubai as "most different" case studies. It observes that government-connected organizations...

En tankesmie assosiert med Mir Hossein Musavi skisserte rammen for ”muslimsk levemodus” i forkant av 2009-valget i Iran. Tankegodset har ikke vært internasjonalt kjent, men fremstår som en viktig inspirasjonskilde...

Kuwait's liberalization of the press and publication law in 2006 sparked a threefold increase in the number of Arabic language newspapers that defied conventional wisdom about print media decline and...

Hvilken utfordring representerer dermed den nye mediestrukturen i Kuwait for det politiske systemet? En skulle kanskje tro at liberalisering av mediesektoren ville bidra til å svekke makthaverne ettersom statlig kontroll...

Gjennom sin sterke dominans i studier av monarkiene på Den arabiske halvøy har renteniststatsteorien tegnet et for endimensjonalt og statisk bilde av årsakene til politisk utvikling i regionen. Artikkelen diskuterer...

The growth of private welfare in Syria since the 1990s and a parallel détente between the Ba?th regime and the Islamic trend have allowed an Islamic movement called Jama?at Zayd...

The literature on the ‘‘resource curse’’ suggests that the quality of institutions determines a country’s ability to transform resource wealth into economic development. This article explores the link between resource...

Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the wave of Arab revolutions....

In this ground-breaking book, aimed at new generation of students, Kjetil Selvik and Stig Stenslie provide a new introduction to the contemporary Middle East, using topical questions about stability and...

The article analyses the change in discourse accompanying Bashar al-Asad's economic liberalization after 2000. The old populist social contract is to be replaced with a new one that allows the...

The business case for CSR refers to the idea that companies should adopt socially respon­sible practices out of self-interest. This article critically discusses the use of the business case argument...

Private sector industrial entrepreneurs are usually perceived as “victims” of the Iranian revolution. This reading has been shaped by events like the Revolutionary council’s dispossession of the Pahlavi industrial elite...

In the regional backdrop to the war in Yemen Iran is a pivotal actor. Saudi Arabia has made clear that it sees the conflict in Yemen as the extension of...

This report reviews the organisational performance of the Palestinian NGOAl-Haq over a three period (2011–13). The report is based on field interviews in Ramallah with staff, stakeholders and beneficiaries and...

This report reviews the organisational performance of the Palestinian NGOAl-Miftah over a three period (2011–13). The report is based on field interviews in Ramallah with staff, stakeholders and beneficiaries and...

Hassan Rouhani won Iran’s presidential elections by posing as the voice of protest and change. Though previously considered a conservative he ran a campaign with strong reformist flavour. Rouhani himself...

The Syrian army did not turn on the regime in the face of popular protests, contrary to its Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts. Yet, the Syrian army lost its ability to...

Panel debate. Civil-military relations in Latin America and the Middle East. What will the future bring?                      John McNeish (NMBU), Elin Skaar (CMI), Kjetil Selvik (CMI), Kristina Mani (Oberlin), Sverre Johan...