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MAKDISI SAMIR

PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ECONOMICS, FOUNDING DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT

Lebanon

Phone: 961 2 223063

E-mail: skmakdisi@gmail.com

Institute

INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Country: Lebanon

Institute type: University

FEMISE Institute: yes

Areas research expertise

  • Macroeconomic Policy
  • Poverty and Inequalities
  • Education
  • EuroMed Cooperation
  • Governance and Institutions
  • Regional Integration
  • Euro-Med Cooperation
  • Other (please specify)

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ARAB DEVELOPMENT

Participation in FEMISE-funded research: %s

Last publications

BOOKS

-- Editor and contributor (with I. Elbadawi), Democratic Transitions in the Arab World, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

--Editor and contributor (with I. Elbadawi), Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit, (Routledge, 2011). Translated into Arabic and published by the Center for Arab Unity Studies (2012)

--The Lessons of Lebanon, the Economics of War and Development, (London, IB Tauris, 2004, 2017). Translated into Arabic and published by Dar Annahar, Beirut, December, 2004.(awarded the Suad Al Sabbah first prize for 2005 for published work in Arabic in the social sciences).

PAPERS/CHAPTERS

--“Reflections on the Arab Uprisings” , Journal of International Development Policy: Combining Economic and Political Development- the Experience of MEN ( 7.0.2017)

--“Explaining Democratic Transitions in the Arab World”, in I.Elbadawi and S.Makdisi (eds.) Democratic Transitions in the Arab World .Cambridge University Press , 2017( with I.Elbadawi)

‘’“Lebanon: Sectarian Consociationalism and the Transition to a Fully Fledged Democracy” in I.Elbadawi and S.Makdisi (eds.) Democratic Transitions in the Arab World Cambridge University Press , 2017 ( with Y.El Khalil)

--“ The Political Economy of the Arab Spring: Searching for a Virtuous Circle”, Open Democracy ,July 28, 2016 ( with Paul Aarts
--“The Unraveling of Arab Autocracy: Socioeconomic
Factors in Context” in Ali Kadri (ed.) Development Challenges and Solutions after the Arab Spring ,Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

--"On Transition, Democracy, and Socio -Economic Justice in the Arab World "Institute of Financial Economics Working Paper No. 1, 2015