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  • Tohme, Maria (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022)
    The following study examines the Abraham Accords (AA) shaping a new geopolitical era for the MENA region by testing if and how the Abraham Accords are polarizing the present scene in the MENA region. The game theory is the main layer of the theoretical framework, giving a deeper understanding on how three autonomous player the United States, the UAE, and Israel can cooperate together amid a historical conflict and how it will affect the region of the middle east. Following the theoretical framework, a qualitative methodology is used to gather in depth rich and diverse information on the ...
  • Dibo, Ziad A. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2005)
  • Francis, Samer (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2006)
    In the last decade, many aspects of globalization have captured worldwide attention. But for more than a century, the driving force behind globalization has been the expansion of trade in goods and services . Trade liberalization is of major concern for developing countries following protectionist policies, since they are more vulnerable to total openness. The rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which was established in 1995, are based on the principles of free trade. These rules promote trade liberalization policies; this is why acceding to this international organization is of great ...
  • Lee, Sangkyum (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2019)
    The Republic of Korea sought to become an "advanced human rights country" by joining the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992. In addition, a provision for refugee recognition was established in the Immigration Act in 1993, and the refugee policy was implemented in earnest in 1994. However, contrary to the Korean government's expectation, criticism of the refugee policy continued on the inside and outside of the country, with the birth of the first Korean recognized refugee in 2001. Although the Korean government and the National ...
  • Rivera, Daniel F. (Notre Dame University-Louaizé, 2008)
  • Khattar, Raymond (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2007)
  • Najjar, Najib (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008)
    Infrastructure privatization is initiated through various modes by different countries and can generally include the construction of new privately owned facilities, privatization of existing facilities, concessions or leases, and project financing. B.O.T. [Build-Operate- Transfer] means the government grants investment enterprises an operational concession for a period, permits them to construct and administrate certain public infrastructures by financing, and authorizes them to pay off loans, reclaim investment and make a profit through charging from users or selling products. At the expiration ...
  • Hindi, Betty Elias (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2007-02)
  • Ashkar, Rayan M. (Notre Dame University, 2017)
    A current survey by UNHCR counted 65 million refugees worldwide. Many of them are seeking security and improved economical chances in industrial countries. The overwhelming numbers took most of the European countries and governments by surprise. Despite international moral and humanitarian obligation, refugee welcome culture and integration policies are nonetheless facing many challenges when confronted with the day to day reality. Refugees and asylum seekers from Syria make up the largest group of arrivals in Germany both in 2015 and 2016. Learning the language, one of the most important factors ...
  • Zammar, Rebecca (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020)
    Children in Lebanon suffer desecrations of their rights because governments fail to enforce laws and regulations and to generate the economic and social conditions essential for a better living situation for children. Despite the armed conflict that consumed the country and its institutions for a long time until 1989, Lebanon ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child relatively quickly. The CRC is a unique human rights agreement in that it safeguards not only the child's civil and political rights but that it also brings protection to the child's economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian ...
  • Baaklini, Elie S. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021-09)
    The Uighur dilemma has been debated for quite some time already. The global media discussed what is happening in the Chinese province of Xinjiang with several political analyses and special reports being disseminated throughout the globe. The studies done on this subject has been scarce, but when combining them together in a specific mold and with a targeted objective from a pinpoint angle it delivers the needed result, which is what this research has aimed at doing. The goal was studying the material that have been done on Xinjiang according to International Law with the aim of deducing whether ...
  • Abi Adam, Maya Michel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    The revival of the Lebanese public administration is necessary for restoring the basic role and services of the Lebanese government. In 2011, The Office of Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR) presented the “Strategy for the Reform and Development of Public Administration in Lebanon.” The reform strategy is laced with words like “empowerment”, “business re-engineering”, “benchmarking”, “learning organization”… it seems that New Public Management principles inspired the reform framework designed by OMSAR. The intention of this study is to increase the understanding of the 2011 ...
  • Bijjani, Talal Nassif (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2004)
    The global world we're witnessing nowadays has reshaped many or most of the concepts we thought of as indispensable. Globalization has turned the whole world into a small village, cutting down boundaries, and opening channels which were inconceivable just a few years back: free movement of knowledge, thought, inventions, creations, and ideas have become commonplace. International trade has not been an exception. It too has been radically changed by this phenomenon called globalization. At the essence of international trade lies intellectual property trade. Therefore its protection has become ...
  • El Sarnouk, André William (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008-06)
    Globalization, nowadays, has reshaped many or most of the legal concepts humans thought of as indispensable. It has turned the globe into a small village, cutting down boundaries, and opening up channels which were inconceivable just a few years back. Free movements of knowledge, thought, inventions, technologies, creations, and ideas have become available to humanity. This research investigates, therefore, the scope of copyright protection of computer programs and their impact. There is no doubt that the modern technology use stretches the law which is sometimes slow to react. One legal ...
  • Khatcherian, Garine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2006)
    The expansion of e-government applications since the 1990s has led many countries in the developing world to follow the advanced industrialized societies in using e-government as an enabling tool to achieve reform goals. Lebanon is implementing e-government initiatives as part of international efforts to integrate the developing world in the information society. With corruption plaguing the country, this research aims to examine if the government in Lebanon is taking steps to tackle this rampant problem through e-government projects, and to assess the nature of such projects and the level of ...
  • Antoun, Elie (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022)
    The Venezuelan crisis was filling the headlines during 2019, and took the world’s attention. The country that once was the wealthiest in Latin America suffers the worst economic crisis of a country that is not experiencing war since the 20th century. Diseases, collapse of institutions, destitution, and repression have led millions to flee the country to neighboring states. Venezuela, that sits on the largest oil reserves in the world, has the phenomenon called “the resource curse”, where the government is spending all the money coming from oil without injecting any back into the economy. The ...
  • Nakhle, Anthony (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022-11)
    The launch of Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, in 2009, altered the traditional perspective that people held with regard to of financial transactions. Over the years, hundreds of cryptocurrencies have emerged and the realm of crypto (digital) assets extended its impact toglobal affairs whereas it affects domestic and international economics, politics, and the environment. Given the nature and potential of this technology, it has left a positive mark as wellas negative stains due to lack of regulation, falling prey to perversion and abuse with malicious intent to commit illicit activity. ...
  • Labaky, Sabine Y. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1997)
    Nationality issue goes back to the early dawn of mankind. It was formed with the creation of state. Therefore, nationality is directly related to the municipal law of each and every state. Nationality problem arise from these different nationality definitions. Some of these problems were dealt on international basis; however, no supreme power could implement these solutions whats over beneficial. Lebanon is one of the states that is still dealing with nationality issue. Lebanon has an old body of rules taken from the French legislation and was not yet adapted to the Lebanese situation which ...
  • Youssef, Imad Milad (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2006)
    As the world enters the information age, countries has undertaken extensive study of the "Revolution in Military Affairs" and information warfare. This thesis examines the implications of information warfare tactics and techniques for terrorism. It explores the possibility that computers may revolutionize terrorism. Two concepts are often embodied in academic definitions of terrorism: violence and terror. By adding information warfare techniques, the definition of terrorism could be expanded to include "cyberviolence," the destruction or manipulation of computer information. The "violence" ...
  • Daou, Daniella (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2023-06)
    The Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in Lebanon, commonly known as Tashnag, are two organizations that are highlighted specifically in this thesis' examination of the phenomena of social democratic parties' downfall. Since its independence, confessional politics have molded Lebanon's political landscape, with a consociational structure that gives representation to the nation's 18 minority groups. Political parties in Lebanon were generally based on non-sectarian ideas before the civil war in 1975, however this thesis emphasizes the change in party ...

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