Political Sciences Journal

Briefly the term of cyber security is a bunch of operations and procedures working on insurance and protecting the network, computer devices, the programs and data from attack and from damaging penetration, also from breaking, abstraction and disturbing in spite of the fact that the concept of cyber conflict is got widening. So, the needs arise in the state to secure cyberspace and protect it by several methods to confront the electronic intrusions and threats which is known as cyber security. Countries seek to preserve its national security in particular the United States of America after the events of September 11 ,2001. In addition, the United States follow all ways to take over cyber threats.

China and India are considered both rising countries, and both are among the world's most populous and fastest growing economies. The long-term growth of both China and India has reinforced the importance of their bilateral relationship. The relations between China and India are complex, as relations between them have undergone great changes during the past seven decades, ranging from friendship to hostility. This study proceeds from the hypothesis that the nature and path of Sino-Indian relations after 2013 are affected by several factors and variables, some of which represent opportunities, others represent challenges and obstacles. Several opportunities have contributed to the reformulation of bilateral relations in terms of mutual gains and enhancing cooperation in various fields, especially economy. However, there are still set of challenges and restrictions that have not been reached with radical solutions which prevent the development of bilateral relations to the desired level. The study also concludes that it is the responsibility of the two countries to work together to reduce their succession, get rid of the burden of the past, and push the rapprochement and bilateral cooperation to its highest levels.

Recent studies agree that the democratic system in a country can only be established in an atmosphere of political and religious freedom. However, the term democracy and the term freedom have become controversial because their concepts remain multiple and different. Karl Popper is one of the most prominent philosophers in modern Western political thought, and one of the defenders of democracy as opposite to dictatorship. It has defined its function by its ability to restrain the ruling elite and to enforce it to prevent their tendency to tyranny. This can be achieved only in the context of the close relationship between democracy and freedom, so, if there is democracy in the absence of absolute freedom, democracy is a gateway to expanding freedom.

The dangers of (Israel's) integration with Arab countries in the middle east region will threaten the Arab security structure dimension, which the latter makes the Arab regional system vulnerable for distortion due to its nominal and symbolic value which is far from the Arab self and questioning with its effectiveness in comparing with the real capabilities to Arab countries in achieving the common targets. So, how to assess the different problems that began to hit the structure of the Arab regional system? and how to pledge an allegiance after putting forward what is known as the American Deal of the Century for the administration of former US President Donald Trump for making another step toward normalization with (Israel)?. The reveal is an additional factor that affect the extent of weakening or fragmentation to the system of the Arab regional environment, being the main objective for both the United States of America and (Israel) alike, hoping to obstruct the outputs of the boundary between the Arab Mashreq and the Maghreb to be dominated by conflict, crises and instability. Especially after the spread of the Corona pandemic in 2020, and many concepts that changed the manner of dealing with the catastrophic issues, which affect the future of the relations of the Arab Gulf region countries that also face a difficult historical experiment and test as a form of the relationship in the post-normalization stage that began in mid-August 2020 with the United Arab Emirates to be a case study of this research in Arab gulf region.

Since the emergence of the science of international relations as an independent academic scientific field, various theories and trends have appeared and have tried to understand and explain the international reality and give a clear picture of what is happening within the international system of interactions and influences and the search for tools for stability and peace in international relations. Among these theories is the feminist theory, which is a new intellectual trend on the level of international relations theories, which tried to give an explanation of what is happening in world politics and in international relations in particular. The main issue that feminist theory is concerned with is the lack of women’s subordination to men or their dominance over women, given that women and the matters related to them are different, low and of less value than men, especially reducing their role in making decision. The Oxford Dictionary defines feminist theory as the recognition of women's rights and equal opportunities to men at various levels of scientific and practical life.
The demand for women’s rights began in the first founding conference held in Paris in 1892, the most important of which are the rights to education, the right to vote, and to have a role in decision-making. During the leadership of countries whose role has increased recently until the number of countries ruled by women reached more than (16) countries, their rule witnessed distinguished leadership at all levels, especially in managing the crisis of the Covid 19 epidemic,; it encouraged the pioneers of feminist theory to provide the advantages of feminist leadership that achieve political, economic and social stability, thus achieving international peace, security and stability of international relations. The existence of wars and instability is due to the patriarchal world and the presence of men in decision-making and the best solution is the leadership of women who have proven their success in wisdom such as (Germany, Croatia, New Zealand, Singapore .... and others). This research takes Singapore as a model and it will focus on the Singaporean experience in the leadership of women represented by Mrs. Halima Yaqoub, a Muslim woman of Indian origin who won the election in 2017 and became the eighth president of Singapore without entering an electoral race as no one is nominated with her. The Southeast Asian country is considered the fourth largest financial center in the world and one of the richest countries in the region and the most stable country politically.

The study discusses ''The Security Intellectual Proposals of the Paris and the Welsh Schools'', which are considered one of the most important contemporary European monetary schools that emerged in the nineties of the twentieth century, and how did it approach the concept of security, criticizing the traditional trend that prevailed during the Cold War period regarding limiting the concept of security to the state or to the military aspect (National Security), and an attempt to expand the concept to economic, social and environmental dimensions, as well as political and military dimensions. The most important proposals that the Wales School provided are “Security as an emancipation policy”, “individual security”, and “The role of the academic institution” depending on its intellectual origins on the ideas of Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, after mixing it with the critical style of the Frankfurt School. While the Paris School deals with “globalization of security”, “collection and analysis”, and “The link between internal and external security”. Its intellectual origins are based on the approaches of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu.

The military presence in the Gulf region after the British withdrawal from it in 1971 was one of the most important pillars of the American strategy to climb the ladder of global leadership, as the geostrategic features that the region enjoyed provided factors of controlling energy sources and global trade routes. The United States of America guarantees Western Europe and Japan the process of access to energy sources and the exclusion of its opponents from the region, especially the Soviet Union, and the growing American military presence in the Gulf after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. On the other hand, the region experiences many contradictions, some of which threaten its security, such as the exacerbation of disputes between its countries and the emergence of crises such as the crisis of the file of Iranian nuclear crisis, the Qatari crisis, the continuation of the Arab-Iranian disputes over the UAE islands, and the Bahrain problem, which ended with Saudi military intervention, as well as the war in Yemen. All of these problems occur with the intense US military presence in the region, which suggests a causal relationship between the US strategy adopted in the region and the continued security instability. Therefore, this research will address in detail the relationship between the American presence in the Arab Gulf region and the persistence of instability in it, especially after 2003.

African countries are among the countries in the world that suffer from the phenomenon of child recruitment in wars and conflicts. There are many reasons behind it, including the nature of the human formation of children, the societal violence to which they are exposed, lack of access to education, economic hardships, as well as the role of African wars and conflicts and other reasons that compelled children to join armed groups and participate in military operations. The recruitment of children is divided into two types, compulsory and voluntary, and this leads to many humanitarian and security repercussions that are not limited to a specific period of time but extend to subsequent generations, and due to its seriousness, the international community has stopped against it. For this reason many international conventions and agreements are enacted against the recruitment of child soldiers, as well as the international role in limiting it.

This study investigates the factors that led to the outbreak of protest movements in Sudan, since Sudan’s independence in 1956 until December 2018. The study aims to identify the role of protests in bringing about political and social transformations in Sudan, besides identifying the factors that help in the success or failure of the governments that resulted from those protests, with special emphasis on the challenges of the government of the 2018 revolution. The main results of the study reveal that the December 2018 protests are the largest in term of numbers, and witness huge participation of youth and women, and the slogans raised were national and comprehensive. However, the challenges that the transitional government is going through are serious and great. This is due to the gap between the aspirations of the revolutionaries and the reality. In reality, reforming the economy, politics, and the social situation is not an easy matter or a Sudanese affair exclusively, rather, external interventions have drastic impact. Whatsoever happen, the desired transformations remain dependent on the ability of the active forces to overcome this chaotic situation. The study recommends assimilating the revolutionaries into political systems to bring about change to civil and democratic state.

This research aims to identify the reality of teaching political science research methods curriculum, to observe practices, and differences in teaching and learning between the Arab and Western universities. Moreover, it focuses on the difficulties that face students' acquisition of the course skills. The research uses the course model of some Western and Arab universities as case study.
This research shows that the curriculum do not reach yet the final form as other political science curriculums, and its upcoming changes will reflect the needs of stakeholders. The best method to teach this curriculum is to use applied learning in groups, learning by doing, and finally problem-based learning approach. Using optimal assessment deepens self-confidence during practice.

Western political philosophy is one of the philosophies that deals with many ideas and proposals that include concepts born in ancient times, whereas Greek philosophy represents the basic roots of the development of political thought and the study of political phenomena and a starting point for political thought even if the matter is completed with the Romans, and schools of thought that represented a model for building the state and up to the modern era. The absolute and the relative are the subject of discussion by most philosophers. The transition of thought was with Descartes, and the intellectual transformation from the absolute to the relative was with Nietzsche, and the basic root of all of that is represented by the German philosopher Hegel.
Hegel's thought is purely theoretical and philosophical in his proposition, as he sees that dialectics represents the spirit of history by proposing the dialectical triangle, and that the process of history's growth and development depends in itself on basic determinants such as freedom, which means the spirit of history, development and growth. Hegel sees that the identity of thought and existence is represented in a duality that cannot be separated. The content of the identity of a thing is in its existence and the latter represents the identity of the thing from which he sees that every intellectual proposal is full of contradictions, differences and partial facts, where all these differences can unite according to a specific mental system. Hegel sees history from three different angles: the original, theoretical, and philosophical history. All of this can achieve freedom according to a specific system that weaves the development of states.

China is moving towards building the largest economic power in the world, so what does this mean economically and politically for Europe, America, the Middle East and the Arab world? This project is called the expansionist Chinese Marshall Plan which is a revival of the old Silk Road in a new way. It represents the aspirations of the Chinese people and their president, Xi Jinping, to build a transport route from Asia to Europe and a railway plan to transport goods. The purpose of this is to develop the economic growth model, expand into new markets, promote the Chinese currency, and expand economic and political influence in the areas covered by the Chinese initiative. Equal opportunities in distributing investments to these countries, and the emergence of the importance of the Chinese project is due to the world’s need for stability, security, and peaceful coexistence away from the economic crises experienced by Europe or the armed conflicts experienced by the Arab countries. It is a huge economic and global project that can achieve profits for the participating countries.

Iraq enjoys many factors and ingredients that made it “affect and be affected at the same time” by the American-Iranian conflict from the “strategic geographical position” adjacent to Iran as an important point and that Iraq has been part of this conflict since the last period which witnessed the outbreak of the first Gulf War (1980-1988) because of border problems and a dispute over Shatt al-Arab, and what followed after that, specifically from 2003 when the United States of America and its allies occupied Iraq’s lands and made a political change by the destruction of its security and military institutions. It increased the importance of Iraq in being a subject of competition between the competing parties in exploiting the advantages and ingredients that Iraq enjoys in order to achieve their goals and interests at the expense of the other party and to start the process of influencing its political situation to ensure a political approach that does not depart from the framework of their interests and competitive goals, and at the same time trying to exploit and influence the other conditions (security, economic and ideological conditions) that Iraq is going through in order to achieve a position of influence for them in order to monitor, follow up, and take a counter to them towards the other party, without concern for the interests of Iraq or its political, security and economic stability, as long as this leads to achieving more advantages in favor of the competing parties, and removing Iraq from the arena of regional competition as a power that has its regional status and prestige.

The implementation of decentralization in Iraq was asymmetrical, leading to different forms and paces of implementation. Comparing four cases of Basra, Kirkuk, Nineveh, and Sulaymaniyah indicate that these cases differ in their political autonomy in a way that lead to different forms of decentralization. This paper argues that the higher the level of political autonomy from the federal government, the more efficient the governance model will be, and the more legitimate the system ;and the more legitimate a system can be, the more accountable elected officials will be. Therefore, this paper recommends reforming the institutional setup of decentralization by having districts, instead of provinces, as the building block of decentralization.