​ACRPS has published issue 23 of the bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal Siyasat Arabia, a journal devoted to political science and international relations. This edition includes the following studies: “The Rise of the Right and the Adoption of the Clash of Civilizations: When Democracy Spawns the Antithesis of Liberalism” (Azmi Bishara); “The Responsibility to Protect: The Revival of Humanitarian Intervention” (Mohammed Alwan); “The Consensual Experiment in Iraq: Theory, Application, Results” (Harith Hasan); “European-Russian Relations in the Energy Sphere: Pressures of Cooperation and Conflict of Interests” (Ahmed Qasim Hussein); “The Issue of the Moroccan Sahara: The Complex of Partition in Western Morocco: A Moroccan Vision” (Larbi Ben Ramadan); and “The Algerian Foreign Policy Crisis between the Legacy of Principles and the Calculation of Interests: Case Study of the ‘Arab Spring’” (Rabah Zeghouni). The Arab Opinion Index section covers “Trends in Arab Public Opinion on the 2016 US presidential Elections”. The issue deals with a number of key points in democratization in the Arab world in the period September 1 to December 1, 2016, as well as events in Palestine over the same period.