hi all,
i'm assuming you all have figured the presentations for tomorrow. we only have two, heydemann and my networks chapter. we also have one chapter from week 6. see you soon. b Week 6: 3. Bassam Haddad, Chapter 3, in Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience [Text] Week 7: Economic Reform, the Private Sector, and State-Business Relations 1. Steven Heydemann, “Introduction,” in Networks of Privilege: The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East, ed Steven Heydemann (New York: Palgrave-St. Martin's Press, 2004). [PDF] 2. Bassam Haddad, Chapter 4 in Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience [Text]
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hi everyone, please find below your reading list for Friday. There was one mistake on the Reading page that i corrected (for this week, you need to read chapter 3 from my book, on the Private Sector, not Chapter 4, on Networks). if you already read chapter 4 that's good, you'll know why on Friday. I know some of you have signed up to do chapters using the first post. can you please redo your comment on this post to avoid confusion? thanks Finally, as promised, i have included the paper options under the Assignment page. check them out and feel free to have an internal discussion before we can make a decision in class on friday. by the way, i think we had a tremendous class on Friday, though i want us to engage the arguments more and begin to speak like syria experts now that you have amassed a critical amount of readings. see you soon. b Week 6: Economic Reform, the Private Sector, and State-Business Relations 1. Alan Richards and John Waterbury, Chapter 7, “The Emergence of the Public Sector,” Chapter 8, “Contradictions of State-Led Growth,” in A Political Economy of the Middle East (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996). [PDF] 2. Timothy Mitchell, "Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires," MERIP 210 (29,1) Spring 99:28 [PDF] and Timothy Mitchell, "America's Egypt: Discourse of the Development Industry," 169 (F21, 2) Mar-Apr 91:18 [PDF] 3. Bassam Haddad, Chapter 3, in Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience [Text] [The Iranian Embassy in Damascus] hi everyone, here's the assigned reading for Friday, February 15. Please divide the readings accordingly. Week 4: Post-Colonial Development and State Formation in Syria 4. Bassam Haddad, Chapter 2, “The Legacy of State-Business Antagonism,” in Business Networks: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience [Text] Week 5: The political Economy of Syria Under Hafez Asad 1. Raymond Hinnebusch, Chapter 4, “Power and Politics Under Asad” [PDF] 2. Raymond Hinnebusch, Chapter 5, “Power and Politics Under Asad” [PDF] 3. Raymond Hinnebusch, Chapter 6, “Power and Politics Under Asad” [PDF] 4. Bassam Haddad, Chapter 1, in Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience [Text] hi everyone your reading for sunday is below. you only have to present the four chapters by Heydemann. I will discuss Ayubi, and we will leave reading #4 (which i took out of the list below) until Friday. feel free to use the comments section below to discuss anything, including claiming chapters to present. we agreed that we will have a discussion instead of presentations on Sunday see you soon. b Week 4: Post-Colonial Development and State Formation in Syria 1. Nazih Ayubi, “The Middle East and the State Debate: A Conceptual Framework,” in Overstating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (London: I. B. Tauris, 1995), pp. 1-24. [PDF] 2. Developmental Chart (1940s to 2012). [PDF] 3. Steven Heydemann, Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict (1946-970), [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] (Read Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4. Note that the hyperlinked numbers above do not correspond to chapters, but to 5 parts of the book. Search for chapters within). |
AuthorBassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (Pluto Press, 2012). Archives
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