This book is intended to provide a new approach to the study of global values and global value change, based on representative international survey data, above all, the World Values Survey. This theme is of growing interest not only to the international social science community, but also international policy makers and business and financial executives in the framework of international values and business studies. Since the book is also designed to serve advanced graduate courses in sociology, political science and economics at Universities, government and business staff training centres, diplomatic academies et cetera, this book also contains themes for 10-20 minute statements (1000-2000 words) that students and course participants should be able to prepare after attending a course on global values. This book is intended to provide a new approach to the study of global values and global value change, based on representative international survey data, above all, the World Values Survey, covering the entire population in an ever growing number of countries, and now already comprising some 90% of the total global population on earth. The importance of these data for international politics cannot be overestimated: foreign ministries, international organisations, ministerial planning departments of national governments, national intelligence agencies, international bankers and investors, pension fund managers, global insurance enterprises, organisations of national and international security, NGOs, religious communities, they all can benefit from these freely available data, which indeed will revolutionise our discourse on international politics and political culture.

This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that followed the downfall of Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Ali Abdullah Saleh? What about the neighboring countries? How did the contagion occur? Is the revolt still expanding? Will it reach other countries? How about the monarchies? How about the reactions of Israel, Iran, Turkey, the USA and Europe? What about Syria and Lebanon? Why did the Islamists succeed in the first free elections organized in Tunisia and Egypt? Are the countries of the Arab spring going to be led by anti-liberal, anti-Western elite? Is it the beginning of the greatest change in the modern history of the Arab region? Are there new values of the Arab spring? Are they different from the values of the West? These are some of the questions the author tries to investigate and fathom through a systematic monitoring of the events preceding and following the Tunisian revolt in January 14, 2011.

A monograph about the U.S.-Saudi relationship from 9/11 up to the Arab spring.

"Through the study of President G.W. Bush administration's policy in the Middle East, with the Iraq War (2003) in first place, Hichem Karoui attempted to meet the challenge of providing us with a comprehensive monograph, full of actors and networks of relationships and institutions involved in the "making up" of American foreign policy. He neglected nothing: the clubs of neoconservatives, the intellectual elite, the various lobbies, including the Arab and the Israeli, the networks of entrepreneurs and businessmen, the military, etc." Burhan Ghalioun. "The author presents his subject with an enormous zeal for the details of the "who is who" in the past, Republican administration. For an incoming diplomat or military attache being posted to Washington, an ideal "equipement" on the way on the plane." Arno Tausch.

Pendant huit ans (de 2000 a 2008), on nous a dit et repete que tout ce que l'administration Bush a pretendu et fait (de la lutte contre l'axe du mal a la campagne anti-terroriste internationale, et de la guerre preemptive ou preventive a la democratisation du Moyen-Orient par tous les moyens...etc., ) trouve sa source dans l'ideologie morale des neoconservateurs qui cherchent a rendre le monde meilleur, et a moraliser la vie politique nationale et internationale, notamment par une renovation des valeurs (conservatrices) americaines et par un engagement plus actif vis-a-vis des problemes internationaux.Mais a la lumiere des constats que nous avons ete amenes a faire lors de notre investigation, il devient clair que: contrairement a ce qui est largement repandu, ce n'est ni l'ideologie morale des neoconservateurs ni le bloc religieux et messianique allie du President Bush qui guident son action au Moyen-Orient et ailleurs, mais l'economie. En effet, les cles de la politique Bush au Moyen-Orient ne sont ideologiques qu'en apparence. En realite, elles sont a decouvrir dans les interets economiques et financiers que cette administration a cherche a defendre, a proteger, et a acquerir. Ces cles sont a trouver dans l'argent des contributions qui financent les campagnes electorales. Elles sont egalement celles du grand Capital, de l'Amerique des corporations industrielles et financieres, des multinationales, des lobbies et autres groupes de pression qui dominent la vie politique aux Etats-Unis et influencent sa politique au Moyen-Orient jusqu'a la colorer de leurs propres couleurs.