POLT 263 - Comparative Political Economy in the Middle East

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
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.