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Obama administration foreign and security speeches : 2009 to 2013 Oz Hassan (23404663) Obama, Barack United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017 Speeches, addresses, etc., American International relations -- United States -- 21st century National security -- United States -- 21st century Migrated from ePrints This project evaluates how the Arab Spring has affected US and EU policy towards regional allies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) looking in particular at Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. It evaluates how the US and the EU seek to navigate the conflict of interests between supporting democracy on the one hand and securing other complex security goals in the region; such as secure oil and gas supplies, the movement of military and commercial traffic through the region, counter-terrorism and intelligence cooperation, counter-proliferation, and the security of regional allies. Using a constructivist Institutionalist methodology ,and advances in computer assisted qualitative data analysis research methods, the research explores changes in US and EU policy and the challenges western policy-makers face in a shifting geopolitical landscape. The research also seeks to cast light on the nature of political change in the region evaluating whether the end result of the uprisings will be more peaceful and stable democracies, a reversion back to autocratic rule after a temporary pro-democracy hiatus, the seizure of power by Islamist-dominated governments, or a complex combination of all three.<br><br>Data record consists of a single archive file in .7z format. Data was selected from official websites and turned into rtf documents for input into Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software. Data is closed access. Please email the contact for this data collection to request access permission to access the data, explaining your reason for wanting access to the data. Once permission is obtained, please forward this to reshare@essex.ac.uk and the data will be released to you. 2016-07-27T00:00:00Z Dataset Dataset 10.82444/warw.33803194.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Obama_administration_foreign_and_security_speeches_2009_to_2013/33803194 CC BY 4.0