Title:Internet, Telecom Sector Liberalization and Civil Liberties in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Author(s):GIANFRANCHI, Rachele; KERAMANE, RymDate:2005Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Middle Eastern and North African countries started liberalizing the Internet in the mid 1990’s as a
result of the political willingness to develop an economy based on knowledge. The paper suggests that
liberalization is ...
Title:Is there (still) an East-West divide in the conception of citizenship in Europe?
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; LIEBICH, AndréDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:It is common in the literature on nationalism and citizenship to distinguish between civic conceptions
of the political community that are seen to prevail in Western Europe and North America and ethnic
ones that are said ...
Title:Islam and Civil Society
Author(s):ESPOSITO, John L.Date:2000Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSC
Title:Islam and Secular Modernity under Western Eyes:A Genealogy of a Constitutive Relationship
Author(s):BRACKE, Sarah; FADIL, NadiaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper considers the theoretical operations involved in sustaining secular modernity within the realm of social theory. It seeks to understand how the secular operates as an epistemological formation. We examine a set ...
Title:Islamic and Secular Feminisms: Two Discourses Mobilized for Gender Justice
Author(s):BAHI, RihamDate:2011-05-23Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The role of women in Islam is invested with diverse meanings and discourses. The state, religious
authorities, traditional Islamists and reformist intellectuals all claim the right to define the role of
women in the ...
Title:Islamic Feminism and Reforming Muslim Family Laws
Author(s):AL-SHARMANI, MulkiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper, I will engage with some of the recent literature that attempts to define, map out, analyze, categorize, and critique a growing body of academic scholarship that has emerged in the late 80s and early 90s and ...
Title:Justice transitionnelle et violence contre les femmes : Un aspect clé dans le processus de paix
Author(s):STOFFELS, Ruth AbrilDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:As soon as transitional justice mechanisms are instruments to address the problems of "justice" that any peace process pose, it is important to choose the most appropriate one for each different situation. This is the ...