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The MPC is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union. ; It is important to understand the various perspectives on migration issues in order to develop effective and coherent migration policies both in sending and receiving countries. This study attempts to give a snapshot of the most recent migration trends in and out of Egypt since the January 25th, 2011 revolution. It addresses various political parties' and prominent figures' perception on migration policy and its position in the current political dialogue as well as migration sentiments of young men and women almost one and a half years after the start of the revolution. However, it is important to clarify the situation in Egypt is extremely volatile at the moment hence making it more difficult to access the implications brought forth by this research. Given the current struggle between the political Islamists, the old guard and the revolutionaries over all three branches of power, the executive, legislative and judicial branches the outcome will inevitably impact policy directions including those that reflect on migration.

This article is a contribution to the debate about the role of the Internet in mobilizations for political and social change, drawing on interviews and observations during the Egyptian revolution. We propose distinguishing between the use of the Internet as a tool by those seeking to bring about change from below, and the Internet's role as a space where collective dissent can be articulated. We argue that it is important to go beyond three sets of polemics. First, we argue for transcending the debate between utopian and dystopian perspectives on the role of the Internet in political change. Second, we propose a shift away from perspectives that isolate the Internet from other media by examining the powerful synergy between social media and satellite broadcasters during the January 25 uprising. And finally, we call for an understanding of the dialectical relationship between online and offline political action.

We develop a continuous time dynamic game to provide with a benchmark theory of Arab Spring-type events. We consider a resource-dependent economy with two interacting groups, the elite vs. the citizens, and two political regimes, dictatorship vs. a freer regime. Transition to the freer regime can only be achieved if citizens decide to revolt given the concession/repression policy of the elite. Departing from the related literature, the revolution optimal timing is an explicit control variable in the hands of citizens. The elite is the strategic leader: she ultimately chooses her policy knowing the reaction function of citizens. In this framework, we provide with a full equilibrium analysis of the political regime switching game and notably emphasize the role of the direct switching cost of the citizens and of the elite's self-preservation options. In particular, we show how the incorporation of explicit revolution timing may change the conventional wisdom in the related institutional change literature. Finally, we emphasize how the theory may help explaining some key features of the Arab Spring.

This article explores Turkey's changing foreign policy approach towards the Middle East after the spread of the Arab upheavals to Syria. Instead of preserving the status quo, Ankara has turned to a revisionist state that has begun to threaten Middle Eastern governments. While Turkey was reluctant to join the foreign military interventions against Middle Eastern regimes, (e. g. Libya) it has been instrumental in immersing NATO in the Syrian civil war. Such transformation ultimately undermines analyses that define Turkey as the kingmaker of the Middle East.

On the outset of any analytical deliberations in the contemporary political and cultural situations of Gulf, it would be the instability that marks the defining features it. Just like a children's 'Building the Block' game in which progress is attained in the expense of stability, in Middle East, Power either political or economic is constantly reconstituting ever since the decolonised era, and the question, "where do I belong to?" reflects the indefinite nationalism and national boundaries shared by the people. Taking Middle East as a cultural discourse where power is in motion in variant forms has to be observed very prudently today. For the last two decades, Arabian nations are in constant political turmoil and have witnessed overthrow of power regime in five more countries. All those movements assumed integrated political stability on land, but all resulted either in unprecedented civil wars or irreversible human exile. Arab spring was a revivalist movement in the early 21st century, calling for paradigm shift in the existing political regimes in Middle East nations. The spring swept away the lands and replaced the systems, but never defined a discourse to take the rule ahead. The revivalist governments replaced the preceding, but failed in promise to keep a stable and legitimised political system ever. Moreover, to take the lead with an ideological ambush for the so called Arabian Spring, none of the indigenous writers of the land attempted. Rather, there were far grievances caught banner headlines in top rated magazines by the so called writers in exile who luxuriously exploit the European life. This paper is an investigation into the cultural factors that signifies the real deep power structures possess the land of gulf.

En: Doxa Comunicación: revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales. e-ISSN 2386-3978 n. 33, 2021, pp ; This paper analyses the scientific production on television in the area of communication, with the aim of detecting the current state of the art, trends in the most researched topics and subtopics on television and gender differences in authorship. To this end, a systematic bibliographic search of articles published in scientific journals in the area of Communication in the main collection of Web of Science from 2016 to 2020 in Spanish was carried out. The analysis of the sample, composed of a total of 192 articles, allows us to conclude a downward trend in terms of research on television and shows that concepts such as social audience, audiovisual or news and fiction genres are the most common in publications on television in Spanish. ; The implications and consequences of the Arab Spring did not go unnoticed by the media around the world. Firstly, because the riots were one of the most unexpected events of the last decade. And secondly, because the media, especially social media, could play a key role in the protests. More than nine years later, there are few elements to speak of success in terms of the democratization of the countries that experienced these popular mobilizations. Faced with this reality, the question of what has remained of the Arab Spring in the Spanish media is highlighted. The current research explores the main topics covered by the Spanish press during the post-Arab Spring period (2012-2020). The Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm was used to do this. The results show that the Spanish press has focused its attention, especially, on conflicting elements in the countries that experienced revolts. In addition, there was an informative over-dimensioning of the realities of culturally close Arab countries. The objective is not only to make a theoretical approach on the object of study but to reinforce the usefulness of this technique in its own works of ...

En: Doxa Comunicación: revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales. e-ISSN 2386-3978 n. 33, 2021, pp ; This paper analyses the scientific production on television in the area of communication, with the aim of detecting the current state of the art, trends in the most researched topics and subtopics on television and gender differences in authorship. To this end, a systematic bibliographic search of articles published in scientific journals in the area of Communication in the main collection of Web of Science from 2016 to 2020 in Spanish was carried out. The analysis of the sample, composed of a total of 192 articles, allows us to conclude a downward trend in terms of research on television and shows that concepts such as social audience, audiovisual or news and fiction genres are the most common in publications on television in Spanish. ; The implications and consequences of the Arab Spring did not go unnoticed by the media around the world. Firstly, because the riots were one of the most unexpected events of the last decade. And secondly, because the media, especially social media, could play a key role in the protests. More than nine years later, there are few elements to speak of success in terms of the democratization of the countries that experienced these popular mobilizations. Faced with this reality, the question of what has remained of the Arab Spring in the Spanish media is highlighted. The current research explores the main topics covered by the Spanish press during the post-Arab Spring period (2012-2020). The Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm was used to do this. The results show that the Spanish press has focused its attention, especially, on conflicting elements in the countries that experienced revolts. In addition, there was an informative over-dimensioning of the realities of culturally close Arab countries. The objective is not only to make a theoretical approach on the object of study but to reinforce the usefulness of this technique in its own works of ...