There are challenges that hinder progress toward the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), targets in Egypt. These challenges include the pervasive differentials and gaps in the delivery, availability, and quality of publicly financed services and programs, the gender gaps; the fragmented legal...

The study argues that Egypt has only some of the characteristics of a so-called ‘anchor country’: In particular, it plays an important role for the long-term stability of the Middle East and North Africa as developments in Egypt have a high symbolic significance for all countries in the...

Introduction 1. - 1. Creating che Macro-Environment for 'Stability and Growth' that Integrates a Globalising 'Warm Peace' 31. - 2. Privatisation and 'Peace' by Partner Allies: Alignment and Oppositional Critiques 81. - 3. Qualified Industrial Zones and Natural Gas: Remapping the Economy for...

Purpose - This paper aims at a qualitative investigation and analysis of the complicated situation of the four German Political Foundations (GPFs) - Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Friedrich Naumann Foundation and Hanns Seidel Foundation - as actors of democracy...