Pete W. Moore – Associate Professor of Political Science

Research Interests

Economic development and state-society relations in the Middle East and Africa; specifically, Gulf Arab States and Levant; business-state relations, privatization, and decentralization; sub-state conflict and regional security.

pwm10@case.edu
Mather House 219
Phone: (216) 368-5265
Fax: (216) 368-4681

Education: Ph.D., McGill University, 1999; M.A., University of Virginia, 1990; B.A., Virginia Military Institute, 1988..

Selected Publications

“Guilty Bystanders: Jordan, Kuwait, and the Iran-Iraq War,” Middle East Report, Winter 2010.

“Making Big Money on Iraq,” Middle East Report, Fall 2009.

“Beyond Boom and Bust: External Rents, Durable Authoritarianism, and Institutional Adaptation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan” (coauthored with Anne Peters), Studies in Comparative International Development, forthcoming issue 44 (2) 2009.

“HAMAS inside the Beltway,” Middle East Law and Governance, (1) 2009.

“The War Economy of Iraq,” (with Christopher Parker) Middle East Report, 243, Summer 2007.

“The Secret Iraq Documents My Eight Year-Old Found,” Salon.com, May 18, 2007

Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

“Commerce and conflict: How the US effort to counter terrorism with trade may backfire,” (with Andrew Shrank) Middle East Policy, Fall 2003.

“The newest Jordan: free trade, peace, and an ace in the hole” Middle East Report Onlilne, June 26, 2003

“Rentier Fiscal Crisis and Regime Stability in the Middle East: Business and State in the Gulf,” Studies in Comparative International Development, Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2002.

Positions Held

Member of Board of Directors, Middle East Report, current

Director, Northeast Ohio University Consortium for Middle East Studies

Member of Editorial Board, Middle East Report, current

Associate professor, Department of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2007, current

Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2005-2007

Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 2001-2005

Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal, 1999-2001

Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Government, Dartmouth College, 1998-1999

Senior Research Fellow, Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle East Studies, Montreal, 1998-

Staff analyst for Persian Gulf Affairs, BDM (Bring Da’ Money), Inc., McLean, Virginia, 1990-1992

Waitron, Yoland’s, Capital Hill, Washington, D.C., 1990.

Bartender, Sloan’s, Charlottesville, Va, 1988-1990.