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Rencontre « Liban: quel avenir pour le Hezbollah? » — iReMMO, 27 mai 2024
No full textLundi 27 mai 2024 | 12h30-14h Présentation du livre de Christophe Ayad géopolitique du Hezbollah (Puf, 2024). Rencontre avec : Christophe Ayad, journaliste au Monde. Il a couvert le Proche-Orient pendant plus de deux décennies. Il a reçu en mai 2004, le Prix Albert Londres. Il vient de publier Géopolitique du Hezbollah (PUF, 2024). Il est par ailleurs l’auteur de Géopolitique de l’Égypte (Complexe, 2002).Modération: Bassem Snaije, enseignant à l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Scien..
Can Finance and Credit Enable Economic Growth and Democracy?
No full textCan economic growth and democracy be fuelled by finance and credit? This chapter examines mechanisms that have positive effects on democratic transition in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, such as credit growth and the development of capital markets-based credit, based on a bond market and a Sukuk market, its sharia-compliant equivalent. The contribution analyses the general role of credit as a network of legally binding contracts of trust between economic actors, including the state, in any given country. By comparing the role and size of credit in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and the MENA region, the author argues that, in general, the growth of credit’s role in MENA countries and, in particular, the development of debt capital markets in the region, strengthen public participation in the economic activity of the region. The spread of contractual obligations requires more transparent and accessible accounting and financial reporting, and a wider network of legally binding obligations. These powerful mechanisms therefore facilitate democratic transitions in MENA countries, even in autocratic regimes.La finance et le crédit permettent-ils la croissance économique et la démocratie ?La croissance économique et la démocratie peuvent-elles être alimentées par la finance et le crédit ? Cet article analyse les mécanismes ayant des effets positifs sur les transitions démocratiques au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord (MENA), tels que la progression générale du crédit et le développement d’un crédit fondé sur les marchés de capitaux, adossé à un marché obligataire et au marché Sukuk, son équivalent conforme à la charia. L’article examine le rôle général du crédit en tant que réseau de contrats de confiance juridiquement contraignants entre des acteurs économiques, y compris l’État, dans un pays donné. À partir d’une étude comparative du rôle et de l’importance du crédit dans les pays membres de l’Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) et ceux du MENA, le texte postule qu’en général l’augmentation du rôle du crédit dans les pays de la région et plus particulièrement le développement des marchés de capitaux d’emprunt, renforcent la participation du public à l’activité économique de la région. La multiplication des obligations contractuelles exige une comptabilité et une information financière plus transparentes et plus accessibles, ainsi qu’un réseau plus large d’obligations juridiquement contraignantes. Ces puissants mécanismes facilitent donc les transitions démocratiques dans les pays de la région MENA, et ce, même dans les régimes autocratiques
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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Combining economic and political development ::the experience of MENA /
No full textSince 2011, democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa have mostly failed to consolidate and have been hindered by the difficult economic heritage of previous authoritarian governments. Yet newly established democratic governments must deliver on the expectations of their people, especially the poorer strata, otherwise disillusionment may open the door to restoration of authoritarian rule. Can democracy succeed? Various ideas for economic policies that may help consolidate the early democratisation process are proposed in this volume, while major obstacles on the way to democratic success are also highlighted. Contributors include: Alissa Amico, Laura El-Katiri, Philippe Fargues, Bassam Fattouh, Steffen Hertog, Giacomo Luciani, Samir Makdisi, Adeel Malik, Bassem Snaije, Robert Springborg, and Eckart Woertz
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
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koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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