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
"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.
(Chapter 1, Summers of
Discontent: business-state politics in the Middle East)
"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 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.
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