Distributed Newspaper Delivery System

This project alms to use distributed client/server environment instead of the traditional manual registration newspaper delivery system. This system will be developed using Microsoft Visual Basic Version 6.0 (VB6.0) and the database by SQL server (2000) as the development platform. The output of the project will be two executable files (the client and the server), which will use Windows 2000 operating system as a delivery platform. The specific advantage of this system is that it has specific calculation such as billing which saves time for the users. The proposed project will try to make the graphical user interface (GUI) as easy and understandable possible to the users (User Friendly)

Globalization, democratization, and the Arab uprising : the international factor in MENA's failed democratization

What explains the almost negative impact of international factors on post-Uprising democratization prospects? This article compares the utility of rival “diffusionist” and neo-Gramscian political economy frames to explain this. Three international factors deter democratization. The failure of Western democracy promotion is rooted in the contradiction between the dominance of global finance capital and the norm of democratic equality; in the periphery, neo-liberalism is most compatible with hybrid regimes and, at best, “low intensity democracy.” In MENA, neo-liberalism generated a crony capitalism incompatible with democratization; while this also sparked the uprisings, these have failed to address class inequalities. Moreover at the normative level, MENA hosts the most credible counter-hegemonic ideologies; the brief peaking of democratic ideology in the region during the early uprisings soon declined amidst regional discourse wars. Non-democrats—coercive regime remnants and radical charismatic movements--were empowered by the competitive interference of rival powers in Uprising states. The collapse of many Uprising states amidst a struggle for power over the region left an environment uncongenial to democratization.PostprintPeer reviewe