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Papers by samir makdisi
Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture; From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print and Modernity in Early British India 1793–1835
European Romantic Review, 2015
Tunisia: The Prospects for Democratic Consolidation
Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
Lebanon: The Legacy of Sectarian
Research, Advocacy and
Autocracies, Democratization and Development in the Arab Region
... received from Ibrahim Elbadawi and Marcus Marktanner and for the research assistance of Layal... more ... received from Ibrahim Elbadawi and Marcus Marktanner and for the research assistance of LayalWehbe. Send correspondence to: Samir Makdisi American University of Beirut makdisi@aub. edu.lb ... S.Attalah (Gulf region), B.Laabas and A.Bouhouche (Algeria), B.Yousif and E ...
تفسير العجز الديمقراطي في الوطن العربي
Sudan: Transition to Democracy after 2011, a Dismembered State Navigating Uncertainties
Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
Kuwaiti Democracy: Elusive or Resilient?
Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?, 2020
The six-member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been able to sustain fast gro... more The six-member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been able to sustain fast growth for over 30 years, since the start of the oil price boom of the mid-1970s. Though growth has of course been volatile, following the various oil cycles, it continued to rise or remained stable at high rates throughout the period. And, some GCC countries, such as the UAE, and most notably the sub-economy of the Emirate of Dubai, have managed to achieve tremendous economic transformations towards more diversified and sophisticated economic structures. Moreover, the GCC monarchies have been able to avoid civil wars and maintain civil peace.
Lecture and Working Paper Series (2003 No.3) The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990 1
This is the third of a series of guest lectures and working papers which the Institute of Financi... more This is the third of a series of guest lectures and working papers which the Institute of Financial Economics (IFE) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) has recently decided to circulate as part of its role in making available ongoing research, within and outside the University, related to economic issues of special concern to the developing countries. While financial, monetary and international economic issues form a major part of the Institute’s work, its research interests are not confined to these areas, but extend to include other domains of relevance to the developing world in the form of general analysis or country specific studies Except for minor editorial changes, the lectures are circulated as presented at public lectures organized by the Institute, while working papers reflect on-going research intended to be polished and developed and eventually published. Comments on the working papers, to be addressed directly to the authors, are welcome.
Review of Middle East Economics and Finance
Page 1. Volume 3, Number 1 2005 Article 2 Review of Middle East Economics and Finance The Tax Str... more Page 1. Volume 3, Number 1 2005 Article 2 Review of Middle East Economics and Finance The Tax Structure and Trade Liberalization of the Middle East and North Africa Region Mehmet S. Tosun, University of Nevada, Reno ...
It's gaining ground, but arab democracy is very precarious
Europe's world: the only Europe-wide policy journal, 2012
Arab monetary integration : issues and prerequisites
Arab Monetary Integration (RLE Economy of Middle East) : Issues and Prerequisites
Syria : the public sector and economic growth, 1945-1957
Democracy and development in the Arab World
American University of Beirut Institute of Financial Economics
This paper strongly corroborates the widely-held claim about the democracy and freedom “deficit” ... more This paper strongly corroborates the widely-held claim about the democracy and freedom “deficit” in the Arab world and asks the natural question as to why the Arab world has experienced such a deficit. In addition to this core question, the paper also assesses the development impact of the Arab democracy deficit. The estimation results of an extended “modernity” model of democracy (measured by the Polity IV global index) suggest that after controlling for a host of economic, social and historical variables a negative and highly significant Arab dummy effect remains. This suggests, therefore, that the modernization theory does not fully account for the democracy deficit of the Arab world. We argue that Arab region-specific factors outside this theory, most notably regional conflicts and oil, may be relevant to explaining the Arab world “dummy.” Controlling for the modernity and other determinants, oil is negatively associated with democracy suggesting that oil dependency is a drag on...
Understanding Democratic Transitions in The Arab World
The recent Arab uprisings have forced a new trajectory of transitions to democracy from the long-... more The recent Arab uprisings have forced a new trajectory of transitions to democracy from the long-reigning autocracies that have dominated this region. This paper analyzes the factors that underlie this transition, where we code ‘democratic transitions’ as a multi-year phenomenon. We find that rents from oil and other minerals are hindrance to democracy when managed by less than fully democratic regimes and that their corrosive influence is subject to threshold effects. Our results also suggest that home wars impede democratic transitions. Finally, we tested for four causative mechanisms that might explain how or when resource rents can constitute a drag on democratization, and that are also of high relevance to the Arab world. We show that resource rents are effective deterrents when they are deployed to create jobs or when the resource endowed country is located in a non-democratic or conflicting region. On the other hand, compared to resource transfers, political repression does n...
Lebanon: The Legacy of Sectarian Consociationalism and the Transition to a Fully-Fledged Democracy
Democracy and development in the Arab world : final technical report, Sep. 15, 2006 – Sep. 15, 2009
The Arab region: Development without democracy a
Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture; From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print and Modernity in Early British India 1793–1835
European Romantic Review, 2015
Tunisia: The Prospects for Democratic Consolidation
Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
Lebanon: The Legacy of Sectarian
Research, Advocacy and
Autocracies, Democratization and Development in the Arab Region
... received from Ibrahim Elbadawi and Marcus Marktanner and for the research assistance of Layal... more ... received from Ibrahim Elbadawi and Marcus Marktanner and for the research assistance of LayalWehbe. Send correspondence to: Samir Makdisi American University of Beirut makdisi@aub. edu.lb ... S.Attalah (Gulf region), B.Laabas and A.Bouhouche (Algeria), B.Yousif and E ...
تفسير العجز الديمقراطي في الوطن العربي
Sudan: Transition to Democracy after 2011, a Dismembered State Navigating Uncertainties
Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
Kuwaiti Democracy: Elusive or Resilient?
Democratic Transitions in the Arab World
When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?, 2020
The six-member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been able to sustain fast gro... more The six-member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been able to sustain fast growth for over 30 years, since the start of the oil price boom of the mid-1970s. Though growth has of course been volatile, following the various oil cycles, it continued to rise or remained stable at high rates throughout the period. And, some GCC countries, such as the UAE, and most notably the sub-economy of the Emirate of Dubai, have managed to achieve tremendous economic transformations towards more diversified and sophisticated economic structures. Moreover, the GCC monarchies have been able to avoid civil wars and maintain civil peace.
Lecture and Working Paper Series (2003 No.3) The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990 1
This is the third of a series of guest lectures and working papers which the Institute of Financi... more This is the third of a series of guest lectures and working papers which the Institute of Financial Economics (IFE) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) has recently decided to circulate as part of its role in making available ongoing research, within and outside the University, related to economic issues of special concern to the developing countries. While financial, monetary and international economic issues form a major part of the Institute’s work, its research interests are not confined to these areas, but extend to include other domains of relevance to the developing world in the form of general analysis or country specific studies Except for minor editorial changes, the lectures are circulated as presented at public lectures organized by the Institute, while working papers reflect on-going research intended to be polished and developed and eventually published. Comments on the working papers, to be addressed directly to the authors, are welcome.
Review of Middle East Economics and Finance
Page 1. Volume 3, Number 1 2005 Article 2 Review of Middle East Economics and Finance The Tax Str... more Page 1. Volume 3, Number 1 2005 Article 2 Review of Middle East Economics and Finance The Tax Structure and Trade Liberalization of the Middle East and North Africa Region Mehmet S. Tosun, University of Nevada, Reno ...
It's gaining ground, but arab democracy is very precarious
Europe's world: the only Europe-wide policy journal, 2012
Arab monetary integration : issues and prerequisites
Arab Monetary Integration (RLE Economy of Middle East) : Issues and Prerequisites
Syria : the public sector and economic growth, 1945-1957
Democracy and development in the Arab World
American University of Beirut Institute of Financial Economics
This paper strongly corroborates the widely-held claim about the democracy and freedom “deficit” ... more This paper strongly corroborates the widely-held claim about the democracy and freedom “deficit” in the Arab world and asks the natural question as to why the Arab world has experienced such a deficit. In addition to this core question, the paper also assesses the development impact of the Arab democracy deficit. The estimation results of an extended “modernity” model of democracy (measured by the Polity IV global index) suggest that after controlling for a host of economic, social and historical variables a negative and highly significant Arab dummy effect remains. This suggests, therefore, that the modernization theory does not fully account for the democracy deficit of the Arab world. We argue that Arab region-specific factors outside this theory, most notably regional conflicts and oil, may be relevant to explaining the Arab world “dummy.” Controlling for the modernity and other determinants, oil is negatively associated with democracy suggesting that oil dependency is a drag on...
Understanding Democratic Transitions in The Arab World
The recent Arab uprisings have forced a new trajectory of transitions to democracy from the long-... more The recent Arab uprisings have forced a new trajectory of transitions to democracy from the long-reigning autocracies that have dominated this region. This paper analyzes the factors that underlie this transition, where we code ‘democratic transitions’ as a multi-year phenomenon. We find that rents from oil and other minerals are hindrance to democracy when managed by less than fully democratic regimes and that their corrosive influence is subject to threshold effects. Our results also suggest that home wars impede democratic transitions. Finally, we tested for four causative mechanisms that might explain how or when resource rents can constitute a drag on democratization, and that are also of high relevance to the Arab world. We show that resource rents are effective deterrents when they are deployed to create jobs or when the resource endowed country is located in a non-democratic or conflicting region. On the other hand, compared to resource transfers, political repression does n...
Lebanon: The Legacy of Sectarian Consociationalism and the Transition to a Fully-Fledged Democracy
Democracy and development in the Arab world : final technical report, Sep. 15, 2006 – Sep. 15, 2009
The Arab region: Development without democracy a