The war and the economy: the gradual destruction of Libya

Capasso, Matteo

doi:10.1080/03056244.2020.1801405

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“…Similarly, although Saudi Arabia ranks eighth in terms of the total population compared with the other EMR countries, its gross domestic product exceeds 792 billion (2019 World Bank) [ 43 ]. For countries contributing to <1% of the retrieved literature, the long-standing devastating state of economic and political turmoil in Somalia [ 44 ], Libya [ 45 ], and Syria [ 46 ] might be the culprit behind these countries’ lack of meaningful contribution to research production on the topic. Bahrain’s low contribution to published research might reflect its small population, given that it is the least populated country in the EMR [ 43 ].…”

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Public Health Surveillance Systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Literature

Saad¹,

Nsour²,

Khader³

et al. 2021

JMIR Public Health Surveill

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Background The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) hosts some of the world’s worst humanitarian and health crises. The implementation of health surveillance in this region has faced multiple constraints. New and novel approaches in surveillance are in a constant state of high and immediate demand. Identifying the existing literature on surveillance helps foster an understanding of scientific development and thus potentially supports future development directions. Objective This study aims to illustrate the scientific production, quantify the scholarly impact, and highlight the characteristics of publications on public health surveillance in the EMR over the past decade. Methods We performed a Scopus search using keywords related to public health surveillance or its disciplines, cross-referenced with EMR countries, from 2011 to July 2021. Data were exported and analyzed using Microsoft Excel and Visualization of Similarities Viewer. Quality of journals was determined using SCImago Journal Rank and CiteScore. Results We retrieved 1987 documents, of which 1927 (96.98%) were articles or reviews. There has been an incremental increase in the number of publications (exponential growth, R2=0.80) over the past decade. Publications were mostly affiliated with Iran (501/1987, 25.21%), the United States (468/1987, 23.55%), Pakistan (243/1987, 12.23%), Egypt (224/1987, 11.27%), and Saudi Arabia (209/1987, 10.52%). However, Iran only had links with 40 other countries (total link strength 164), and the biggest collaborator from the EMR was Egypt, with 67 links (total link strength 402). Within the other EMR countries, only Morocco, Lebanon, and Jordan produced ≥79 publications in the 10-year period. Most publications (1551/1987, 78.06%) were affiliated with EMR universities. Most journals were categorized as medical journals, and the highest number of articles were published in the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal (SCImago Journal Rank 0.442; CiteScore 1.5). Retrieved documents had an average of 18.4 (SD 125.5) citations per document and an h-index of 66. The top-3 most cited documents were from the Global Burden of Diseases study. We found 70 high-frequency terms, occurring ≥10 times in author keywords, connected in 3 clusters. COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and pandemic represented the most recent 2020 cluster. Conclusions This is the first research study to quantify the published literature on public health surveillance and its disciplines in the EMR. Research productivity has steadily increased over the past decade, and Iran has been the leading country publishing relevant research. Recurrent recent surveillance themes included COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. This study also sheds light on the gaps in surveillance research in the EMR, including inadequate publications on noncommunicable diseases and injury-related surveillance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Health Surveillance Systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Literature

Saad¹,

Nsour²,

Khader³

et al. 2021

JMIR Public Health Surveill

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“…3 Politically, the United States has slowly and only relatively declined from its absolute political and economic predominance within the worldsystem. It is critical to separate such a diagnosis from discourses of the US "declining empire," which understate the capacity of US power to de-develop Third World nation-states through asphyxiation (Ameli, 2020;Weisbrot & Sachs, 2019) and proxy war (Capasso, 2020;Higgins, 2018). The nuclear backstop and enduring dollar seigniorage (Hudson, 2003) testify to the endurance of the US imperialism and the value flows on which imperialism is based and safeguards.…”

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A People’s Green New Deal: Obstacles and Prospects

Ajl¹

2021

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy

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Within the past years, the Green New Deal (GND) became the common language for Northern climate politics, offering a seeming exit path from Northern social and ecological crises while erasing an older Northern climate discourse tied to Southern demands for climate reparations and rights to development. This Eurocentric GND has become the environmental program for an equally Eurocentric social democratic renewal. This article situates the GND in world-systemic shifts, and Northern reactions to such shifts. It situates the GND as one of three possible Eurocentric solutions to the climate crisis: a great elite transformation from above; a left-liberal “reformist” resolution; a social democratic resolution. It then elaborates a possible “People’s Green New Deal,” a revolutionary transformation focused on state sovereignty, climate debt, auto-centered development, and agriculture. Within each proposed resolution, it traces the role of the land, agriculture, and peasants.

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“…In the Eastern Mediterranean region, the ongoing political tensions between some countries have challenged democratization processes and negatively influenced countries' economic performance. 32 The significant declines in the economic growth and the surges in unemployment rates in a context of crony capitalism and state capture, 33 have prevented the emergence of inclusive, transparent, and accountable institutions in the countries of the region. The EU attempted to respond to the political developments strategically by increasing funds, revising bilateral agreements to meet the political challenges, and proposing "A Partnership for Democracy and Shared Prosperity with the Southern Mediterranean" based on principles of democracy and inclusive economic growth.…”

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The EU's effectiveness in the Eastern Mediterranean migration quandary: challenges to building societal resilience

Özçürümez

2021

Democratization

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Under what conditions does the EU contribute to the prevention of governance breakdown and violent conflict in areas of limited statehood and contested orders by fostering societal resilience? This study seeks answers to this question by examining the EU's effectiveness in fostering societal resilience in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey while they have coped with risks emerging from cross-border mobility, mass influx, and prolonged stays of the forcibly displaced due to the Syrian crisis since 2011. The study argues that the EU has been constrained in building societal resilience. The findings suggest that the EU's effectiveness is limited by contextspecific social, political, and economic risks in host countries; divergence among policy actors' often contradictory preferences; and the impact of the EU's policies in outsourcing management of forced displacement. The study concludes that the EU needs to link the implementation of its short-term pragmatic programmes that primarily enable state resilience in crisis contexts with its long-term liberal vision for fostering high level societal resilience with democratic principles and institutions.

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The war and the economy: the gradual destruction of Libya

Cited by 25 publications

References 70 publications

Public Health Surveillance Systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Literature

Public Health Surveillance Systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Literature

A People’s Green New Deal: Obstacles and Prospects

The EU's effectiveness in the Eastern Mediterranean migration quandary: challenges to building societal resilience

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