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The Middle East Studies Center is a scientific center specializing in conducting research, studies, and consultation; in holding seminars, conferences, and scientific research symposiums pertaining to the changes in the Middle East region; in studying the Middle Eastern formulas, and in predicting its future and its reflection on the Arab and Muslim region. The center was established on March 10, 1991 in Amman, Jordan. The center focuses on studying
the Arab - Israeli conflict and its future developments, the peace process
in the region, the changes in the Arab Muslim region, and the Middle East
in the world order and international relations (politically, economically,
intellectually, and strategically). Hence, it is concerned
with changes of subject and sector domains, as follows:
The center carries out its researches in accordance with the objective scientific approach and works with openness to achieve its goals on all thoughts, new developments, and intellectual political attitudes in the world. It attempts to predict the future and present the necessary analyses, information, and vision for decision-makers and society leaders in the Middle East. With its fellow Jordanian centers, it contributes to serving the nation, the Arab and Muslim homeland, and the future of the whole nation. As a base, it seeks to arrive at future objective visions of what region’s conditions will become , the nature of current and expected changes in different domains, and the extent of their reflection on the reality and future of the region, whether in the international, regional, or domestic dimensions of the Middle Eastern countries. The center defines the Middle East region as the Arab countries in their entirety besides Iran and Turkey. The center aims at achieving the following goals
The center presents its analyses and visions to achieve these goals through
The center exercises a scientific method in the stages of research completion. There is a commitment to internationally recognized conditions of methods of academic research with some new developments. Research is always subject to full supervision and constant follow up by the center. The center provides necessary information from different languages for the researchers. Research is subject to scientific review and evaluation by specialists and other experts. The time plan to complete research is built on the basis of maturation and reaching objective neutral results. This may take from three months to three years.
Since its beginning in 1991, the center has followed the line of programs of conferences and scientific seminars which dealt with the most important and serious current changes in the Middle East, thus attracting a large number of interested people. Then it adopted the balance between those and research and studies. In 1995, the center became prominent in the field of research and studies, while on March 17, 1996 it issued the first volume of the Middle Eastern Issues journal. Between five and eight publications have been put out annually. It has also held one main conference and two sub-seminars annually- all of them in the same specialty field studying the changes and forecasting the future. The center currently has wide academic relationships that include the Middle East region, Europe, and North America. It carries out programs of cooperation, openness, and exchange with major Arab and foreign research centers that are carrying out similar work. It has good relations with more than 20 Jordanian and Arab centers specializing in Middle East affairs. These relations are performed through exchange, consultation, cooperation, and hiring researchers. The center has executed several joint programs with Jordanian-Arab centers as well as with cultural and union bodies in Jordan. As of Aug 2003, it has issued 80 scientific publications of research, studies, Strategic reports, seminars, and scientific research symposiums that deal with many aspects concerning the Middle East region and that were subject to academic review by specialized professors. They included a wide variety of areas including the political, economic, social, security and other fields and covered different geographical areas of the Middle East: the Arabian Gulf, the Arab west, the region of Arab - Israeli conflict, Turkey and Iran. Since its establishment, more than 450 full-time and part-time researchers have worked with the center in different academic specialties. They were of different Arab, Moslem, American and European nationalities and of different generations. The center also held more than 27 conferences and scientific seminars in which over 1000 researchers , politicians , and economists took part in an atmosphere of scientific dialogue ,calm and constructive discussion. Nearly 130 researchers from different specialties and intellectual, religious, and political attitudes participated in presenting the papers in these seminars . About 40 % of the center studies have dealt with the Arab - Israeli conflict and the Palestinian cause, while 60 % have been regional, Middle Eastern, and international studies. Through its work, the center has confirmed the importance of studying the changes as an introduction to scientific research and predicting future circumstances. It can be said that the major achievements of the center have been
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