Insights
Insight 201: The Northern Tier and Great Power Competition in West Asia
12 Mar 2019West Asia has experienced a series of crises and conflicts since 2011 that have reordered the nature of regional politics. This article examines...
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Insight 200: A Two-Tiered Middle East: Prospects for the Asian Century
28 Feb 2019States in the Middle East today are coming together not on the basis of shared sectarian or ideological lines. Rather, they are coalescing...
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Insight 199: Kazakhs Wary of Chinese Embrace as BRI Gathers Steam
28 Feb 2019Abstract Following on our annual conference, in which China’s Belt and Road Initiative was discussed in detail, Philippe Le Corre of the Mossavar-Rahmani...
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Insight 198: Networking Humanity: Women, Piety and Philanthropy
15 Jan 2019Charity Networks Series – A Note from the Editorial Team In our final essay of the Charity Networks series, Eva Nisa discusses Muslim...
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Insight 197: The Malaysian-Palestinian Relationship and Transnational Networks: Civil Society Activism, Politics, and Co-Constitution of Interests
08 Jan 2019Charity Networks Series – A Note from the Editorial Team Malaysian politicians, pro-Palestinian NGOs in Malaysia, and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas have established...
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Insight 196: Local Culture as an Obstacle to Foreign Missionary Penetration in Cambodia
18 Dec 2018Charity Networks Series – A Note from the Editorial Team Following the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia in 1992, several Muslim non-governmental...
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Insight 195: Preserving Gulf Charities: Orphans Projects in Post-Disaster Aceh
03 Dec 2018Charity Networks Series – A Note from the Editorial Team In the wake of the Asian tsunami of 2004, which resulted in thousands...
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Insight 194: Islamic Charitable Networks: From Southeast Asia to the Middle East?
19 Nov 2018Charity Networks Series – A Note from the Editorial Team While the prevalent view of Islam, and specifically of Islamic charities, is that...
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Insight 193: The Emergence of Gulf-based Transnational Charities and their Expansion into Southeast Asia
08 Nov 2018Charity Networks Series – A Note from the Editorial Team The Middle East Institute is pleased to launch the ‘Charity Networks’ series. The...
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Insight 192: The Role of Oman’s Diasporic Business Networks in Circumventing the Qatar Blockade
25 Oct 2018Cities and Networks Insights Series – A Note from the Editorial Team We conclude the ‘Cities and Networks’ Series with a co-authored piece...
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