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1 Mallat, ChibliAfter Kosovo: Secession in the Middle EastA federal state is better than the division of the land. This is also true for Kosovo and the other countries in the Balkans, as it is for Sudan and Yemen. The ICJ Kosovo ruling is good for secessionists, bad for democrats, and devastating for order in the planet.2010-09-02
2 Mallat, ChibliCommercial Law in the Middle East: Between Classical Transactions and Modern BusinessA brief presentation of commercial law decisions across the Arab world is sufficient to show the dominance of western principles in the field, and the direct translation of western terminology and rules for local transactions.2 The decisions have been regrouped in categories which will be familiar t...2000-01
3 Mallat, ChibliFrom Islamic to Middle Eastern Law A Restatement of the Field (Part I)Any approach to law in the region known as Near or Middle East is doubly selective, as the historical depth of the tradition enhances the diversity of cultures active in the contemporary world. Law is a particular example where the contrasted set-up which characterizes twenty-five or so modern Natio...2004
4 Guiora, Amos N.The Gate Keepers: Geopolitics and the Limits of PowerThe Gate Keepers: Geopolitics and the Limits of Power2013-03
5 Chibli Wajdi Mallat 1960-March 2221 : Lebanon's Cedar Revolution : an essay on non-violence and justiceScanned book.2007
6 Mallat, ChibliObama's just war speech: Three questions for 'the Middle East in the United States'Congo, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Sin Kiang and Honduras, are hot spots that have turned or are likely to turn violent. But the Middle East is different in two ways. It is the longest continuously war-ridden area in modern history. And at least since September 11, it has become a domestic American issue...2009-12-24
7 Mallat, ChibliOn the Specificity of Middle Eastern ConstitutionalismRen Maunier, a prolific French ethnologist and jurist (1887-1951), summed up in 1935 the radical transformation of Middle Eastern law since the nineteenth century. In a brief report entitled Outline of the Progress of Law in Muslim Land, he noted the centrality of law in the immense change affec...2006
8 Mallat, ChibliThe Original Sin: Terrorism or Crime Against HumanityOnce the Middle East connection was established over the September 11 attacks, apprehension and uneasiness gripped the region. Eyebrows are now raised over the word terrorism, and there is hardly a newspaper in the Arab and Muslim world that does not question everyday the definition of the word, ami...2002
9 Mallat, ChibliRenforcer la Société Civile contre l'Etat: Horizons du travail international au Proche et Moyen OrientVoici donc la conclusion extrêmement critique qui semble s'imposer sur la recherche d'une meilleure gouvernance dans une perspective SC. Il faut passer au-dessus de l'Etat pour renforcer la SC, et si nécessaire, la renforcer contre l'Etat. Vaste programme, qui commence par un apprentissage dém...2003-11
10 Mallat, ChibliSeptember 11 and the Middle East: Footnote or Watershed in World History?The full span of the 21st century may well need to elapse before the ultimate verdict is reached on the status of September 11 in American and world history. But universalism, the rule of law, justice, pluralism, accountability, good governance, human rights these are all general variations on d...2002-09
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