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In: Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 34 (2004)
In: Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 31 (2001)
In: Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 30 (2000)
In: Borderlines

The Arab Spring has been described as a youth rebellion driven by grievances about unemployment and dissatisfaction with existing regimes. In this article, we assess these claims by examining the characteristics of the current youth generation in the Arab world in comparison with earlier cohorts. We find that some of the conventional assumptions about this generation—that they are less religious, more likely to be unemployed, and more likely to protest—are true, but others—that they are more supportive of secularization, more interested in politics, and more dissatisfied with their regimes—should be reconsidered. Using the first wave of the Arab Barometer survey, we discuss how patterns of political attitudes and behavior vary across cohorts, and cast doubt upon the claim that the Arab Spring was the result of an angry youth cohort that was especially opposed to the old regimes.

In: Middle East Law and Governance
Written by leading human rights litigators and theorists, this treatise offers a comprehensive analysis of human rights litigation in U.S. courts under the Alien Tort Statute and related provisions, including jurisprudential complexities and litigation guidance. The book includes discussion of the Alien Tort Statute, the Torture Victim Protection Act, and less common jurisdictional bases. The issues raised by suing corporations are also discussed. Separate chapters address lawsuits against the U.S. and foreign governments. A section on defenses includes analysis of topics such as immunities, forum non conveniens, and the intervention of the executive branch. The final section discusses litigation strategies.
Europäische Übertragungsschicksale
Die Allgegenwärtigkeit der Tropen Roms erschließt sich in den sprachlichen Strukturen, die von der Antike bis zur Moderne stets verborgen haben, wodurch sie sich konstituieren. Ob im politischen Körper oder im Gesetz der Buchstaben wirkt Rom mit seinen Bedeutungen manifest oder latent nach. Die in diesem Band vorgenommenen Lektüren zielen darauf, das anagrammatische Spiel, in das Roma seit je impliziert ist, zu nutzen, um im unvermeidlichen Bezug unserer Kultur auf Rom überraschende Wendungen und Inklinationen herauszuarbeiten. Die kommentierte Anthologie versammelt Essays zu ausgewählten Passagen aus den Werken von Lucan, Plutarch, Quintilian, Augustinus, Petrarca, Luther, Du Bellay, Gracián, Vico, Baudelaire, Zola, Saussure, Freud, Derrida und vielen anderen mehr, die Rom implizit oder explizit aufrufen, durchstreichen, affirmieren, traumhaft verstellen, wiederholen oder nachtragen. Mit Beiträgen von Barbara Natalie Nagel, Michèle Lowrie, Gianluca Solla, Edi Zollinger, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Anselm Haverkamp u.a.