Nation-states and multinational corporations are the principal agents that comprise the international political economy. Yet, the pattern of bargaining between them has been severely understudied by international relations theorists. This study examines the evolution of risk dur…
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This dissertation examines the question of when opposition elites use the threat or mobilization of masses to press for changes in closed political systems. It rejects the common notion that there is a simple relationship between an increase in mass discontent and pressures for …
Structural transformation and economic liberalization have been on the Egyptian policy agenda for over 20 years. However, the results have been mixed. Macroeconomic imbalances have been manageable in Egypt. Microeconomic distortion have been persistent, mainly lack of employment…
This study analyzes the experiences of liberalization in Egypt and Jordan as well as democratization in Yemen. The initiation and the reverse of these processes are explained by focusing on the role of the ruling elites in the three countries and the choices they made at differe…
This dissertation seeks to explain variation in political liberalization among three post-communist Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. These countries share several common political outcomes such as the dominance of the executive and a high degree o…
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to explore the factors that hindered government-owned organizations in Nigeria from achieving operational efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and productivity. The purpose of the study was to explore whether priva…
This is a study of Algeria's experience with political liberalization during the presidency of Chadli Bendjedid (1979-1992) and how it ended in failure. In examining Algeria's failure, the study addresses more generally the question as to why authoritarian regimes in the Arab wo…
This thesis examines how the monarchial regime of the al-Khalifa dynasty of Bahrain has skillfully tailored the tools of statecraft, both in international diplomacy and domestic policy, for one primary objective: to restrain attempts for democratic reform in order to sustain the…
This is an analysis of the impact of the European Community on Turkey since 1980. Turkey has been experiencing structural transformation since 1980 in its economic, political and social substructures. The central hypothesis of the dissertation was that a major factor stimulating…
The 1990’s in India were a time of incredible transformation, both in economic and social terms. With the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, state-led developmentalism increasingly ceded ground to private investment, and social relations underwent a concomitantly rapi…
This dissertation is a comparative study of the Ottoman and Castilian grain trade policies. It analyzes how the role of the state in the grain trade was redefined in the second half of the eighteenth century. Official price regulation in the grain sector had long been an establi…