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Issue 11.1
Hind Khoudary
Palestinian journalist
Hind Khoudary

Palestinian journalist based in Gaza.

Dana Erekat
Palestinian American architect and planner
Dana Erekat

Palestinian American architect and planner

Afeef Assouli
Beirut journalist
Afeef Assouli
Hossam Madhoun
Project manager at Humanity & Inclusion / Handicap International
Hossam Madhoun

Project manager at Humanity & Inclusion / Handicap International.

Emmaia Gelman
Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Emmaia Gelman

Founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.

Isaac Kamola
Associate Professor at Trinity College
Isaac Kamola

Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College.

Dr. Eli Cahan
Investigative journalist & pediatrician
Dr. Eli Cahan

Journalist and pediatrician in the U.S.

Dr. Faisal Husain
Associate Prof. of History at Penn State
Dr. Faisal Husain

Environmental historian of the Ottoman Empire.

Dr. Zeinab Azarbadegan
Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford University
Dr. Zeinab Azarbadegan

Specializes in the history of 19th century Ottoman and Qajar Empires.

Orit Bashkin
Professor at the University of Chicago
Orit Bashkin

Historian researching the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel.

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Civil War, Economic Governance, and State Reconstruction in the Middle East
Lecture by Steven Heydemann at George Mason University
Apr 18, 2018 - issue 5.2

Since 2011, peaceful protests by citizens demanding political and economic change in Syria, Yemen, and Libya, have collapsed into violent conflicts. For many scholars of civil war and conflict economics, and for practitioners in the fields of development, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction, civil wars in the Middle East are the result of predictable causes—institutional failures defined in terms of state fragility—have followed predictable pathways marked by the breakdown of pre-war systems of governance, and will require predictable remedies to restore stability and repair local economies and societies. Yet the conflicts currently underway in Libya, Syria, and Yemen raise important questions about these assumptions.

Civil wars in the Middle East have not created conditions conducive to reconceptualizing sovereignty or decoupling sovereignty and governance. Rather, parties to conflict compete to capture and monopolize the benefits that flow from international recognition. Under these conditions, civil wars in the Middle East will not yield easily to negotiated solutions. Moreover, to the extent that wartime economic orders reflect deeply institutionalized norms and practices, postconflict conditions will limit possibilities for interventions defined in terms of overcoming state fragility.

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Steven Heydemann
Steven Heydemann

Specialized in comparative politics and the political economy of the Middle East. 

In addition to holding the Janet Wright Ketcham 1953 Chair in Middle East Studies at Smith College, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, Steven Heydemann is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution. From 2007–15 he held a number of leadership positions at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., including vice president of applied research on conflict and senior adviser for the Middle East. Prior to joining USIP, he was director of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University and associate professor in the government department. From 1997 to 2001, he was an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Earlier, from 1990–97, he directed the Program on International Peace and Security and the Program on the Near and Middle East at the Social Science Research Council in New York.

Heydemann is a political scientist who specializes in the comparative politics and the political economy of the Middle East, with a particular focus on Syria. His interests include authoritarian governance, economic development, social policy, political and economic reform and civil society.

Twitter: @SHeydemann

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Civil War, Economic Governance, and State Reconstruction in the Middle East
Lecture by Steven Heydemann at George Mason University
Apr 18, 2018 - issue 5.2

Since 2011, peaceful protests by citizens demanding political and economic change in Syria, Yemen, and Libya, have collapsed into violent conflicts. For many scholars of civil war and conflict economics, and for practitioners in the fields of development, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction, civil wars in the Middle East are the result of predictable causes—institutional failures defined in terms of state fragility—have followed predictable pathways marked by the breakdown of pre-war systems of governance, and will require predictable remedies to restore stability and repair local economies and societies. Yet the conflicts currently underway in Libya, Syria, and Yemen raise important questions about these assumptions.

Civil wars in the Middle East have not created conditions conducive to reconceptualizing sovereignty or decoupling sovereignty and governance. Rather, parties to conflict compete to capture and monopolize the benefits that flow from international recognition. Under these conditions, civil wars in the Middle East will not yield easily to negotiated solutions. Moreover, to the extent that wartime economic orders reflect deeply institutionalized norms and practices, postconflict conditions will limit possibilities for interventions defined in terms of overcoming state fragility.

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Guests

Steven Heydemann
Steven Heydemann

Specialized in comparative politics and the political economy of the Middle East. 

In addition to holding the Janet Wright Ketcham 1953 Chair in Middle East Studies at Smith College, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, Steven Heydemann is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution. From 2007–15 he held a number of leadership positions at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., including vice president of applied research on conflict and senior adviser for the Middle East. Prior to joining USIP, he was director of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University and associate professor in the government department. From 1997 to 2001, he was an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Earlier, from 1990–97, he directed the Program on International Peace and Security and the Program on the Near and Middle East at the Social Science Research Council in New York.

Heydemann is a political scientist who specializes in the comparative politics and the political economy of the Middle East, with a particular focus on Syria. His interests include authoritarian governance, economic development, social policy, political and economic reform and civil society.

Twitter: @SHeydemann

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