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POLT 263 - Comparative Political Economy in the Middle East


Next Offered: 2019-2020

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS,CD

This course examines the relationship between political and economic actors, institutions and practices in the Middle East and North Africa. Through comparative analysis the course explores themes including state-business relations; developmental initiatives and trajectories; natural resource wealth with a focus on oil politics; labor organization; property rights regimes; the politicization of fiscal and monetary policy; and neo-liberalism as manifest in the contemporary Middle East.

Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: S. El-Kazaz



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