pillarization of Lebanese society. Moreover, Syria’s experience is said to differ significantly from Lebanon’s, making the effective … the devastating civil war in Syria and for preventing the further spread of violence into neighboring countries. …

(AA). Syria initialled an AA with the European Union in October 2004, but two and a half years later, this agreement is …

legitimate the invasion of Iraq. Satellite photographs draw on a techno-scientific discourse that enables them to function as …

attributed to charismatic rule: Cuba’s longstanding exceptionalism regarding the ‘second man’ behind the leader; the succession …

deviant case of Cuba’s “non-transition” from a comparative social science perspective can shed light on the peculiarities of … this case and, more importantly, test the general assumptions underlying post-1989 expecta-tions of regime change in Cuba … exceptionalism with a more long-term historic perspective. Moreover, they suggest that interpretations of Cuba as simply a “belated …