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Conférence : « The Political Constraints on Economic Development in the Middle East » — Sciences Po Paris, 27 mars 2024

27/03/2024 
17:30 ▸ 19:30 
Venue: Amphithéâtre Jacques Chapsal, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume Paris 7

This event is co-organized by the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and CERI

Prevailing discussions about economic crisis in the Middle East pay inadequate attention to the political constraints that limit the horizon of development.  Neither old state-led economic approaches nor the neoliberal templates that replaced them have resolved the chronic underdevelopment of the region.

Newer paradigms today are based upon a reformulated version of state-led capitalism, namely the so-called “Gulf model” as well as the economic dualism practiced in non-rentier states.  Yet these templates of development suffer social vulnerability and political limitations, the latter reflecting the elite-centric structures of governance that still characterize political authority.  

Imagining a more productive future requires not reformulating technocratic logics that have failed, but rather conceiving of more pluralistic political institutions capable of rendering economic decisions more accountable to popular interests.
 

Welcome : Stéphanie Balme, Sciences Po – CERI
Introduction : Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po – CERI 
Guest Speaker : Hicham Alaoui, University of California Berkeley

Biography : Dr. Hicham Alaoui is a political science lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is the founder and director of the Hicham Alaoui Foundation, which undertakes innovative social scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa. He currently also serves on the Advisory Board of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a scholar on the comparative politics of democratization and religion.  His latest publications include the monograph Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave, 2022), as well as the co-edited volumes The Political Economy of Arab Education (Lynne Rienner, 2021) and Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges… and the Need for Change (Lynne Rienner, 2023).  He holds an A.B. from Princeton University, M.A. from Stanford University, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.  

Discussant : Ishac Diwan, Paris School of Economics

 

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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (13 mars 2024). Conférence : « The Political Constraints on Economic Development in the Middle East » — Sciences Po Paris, 27 mars 2024. IISMM. Consulté le 19 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/w0gj


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