The theme of the conference is Cultural policy in a transformed cultural landscape. The cultural sector is in motion. The classic cultural institutions are being redefined and new types of institutions have appeared. The mediatization, including social media, that blurs the boundaries between...

Topics: 1. Lesson taken from our failure in the world economy and Muslim countries - The global financial crisis - The Arab spring - The world gap and terrorism - Food insecurity, poverty and inequality - The externalities of foreign aids in Muslim countries - Environmental degradation -...

Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...