Combining scholarship on norms and trust in International Relations, this article puts
forward the concept of entrusted norms as a novel means to understand certain dynamics of …

The main purpose of this article is to examine how Habermas’ account of the transformation
of the public sphere is used in the study of political change in the Arab states of the Middle …

The expression of intercellular adhesion molecule 2 (ICAM-2) in adult tissues is restricted to
vascular endothelial cells and megakaryocytes. We have previously shown that the …

This article offers an overview of the literature on international democracy promotion in relation
to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It draws on the criteria of process tracing to …

Objectives Chronic diarrhoea resulting from primary idiopathic bile acid malabsorption (IBAM)
is common, but its aetiology is largely unknown. We investigated possible mechanisms, …

The Arab Spring’s uneven legacies attest to the ambiguous role of civil resistance in political
life in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. Seven years since Mohamed Bouazizi…

This thesis challenges the assumption that recent political action in Arab societies is evidence
of a ‘Habermasian’ public sphere. It argues instead that the specific historical trajectory of …

This chapter seeks to fulfill three main aims: (1) to provide a broad historical survey of this
period of state formation in the Gulf, beginning roughly around the General Treaty of 1820; (2) …

In this report, a novel calibration method is introduced, which can be used in camera-based
optical coherence tomography (OCT) instruments employing several spectrometers. To …

Methods A database of all cases of suspected stroke that presented to a single centre stroke
unit between September 2009 and August 2010 was interrogated. All cases that …