Why We Were Surprised (Again) by the Arab Spring

Remind me again: why are we here?

Demystifying the Arab Spring

In Tunisia, protesters escalated calls for the restoration of the country's suspended constitution. Meanwhile, Egyptians rose in revolt as strikes across the country brought daily life to a halt and toppled the government. In Libya, provincial leaders worked feverishly to strengthen their newly independent republic. It was 1919. That year's events demonstrate that the global diffusion of inform...

The United States and the Arab Spring

This article reveals, by studying correlative relationships between US regime support and regime properties, that the US foreign policy in the Middle East has traditionally helped governments to limit the political participation of Islamists, communists, enemies of Israel and populations that could be hostile to the US oil interests. This way the US economic and strategic security interests hav...

Surprised by the Parimutuel Odds?

This paper analyzes the role of private information in parimutuel (also known as pool betting) markets, a method commonly adopted to determine betting odds for horse races and other sporting events. According to the parimutuel system, the amount wagered on all outcomes is redistributed to the bets placed on the winning outcome. Given the frequent observation of the realized outcomes (which are ...

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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