Rebuilding Devastated Economies in the Middle East

"This book is concerned with the political and economic obstacles encountered by states in the Middle East seeking to rebuild their national economies after their devastation by violent upheaval, or invasion. Economic devastation is at once the cause and the consequence of partial or total state failure. But, given the type of regime which is likely to seize power under such conditions, it is doubtful that the rulers will defer to the logic of economic growth at the cost of diminishing their own power. The resultant political dilemma is the most challenging obstacle to the rebuilding of devastated economies in the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.

Leonard Binder, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Near East Studies at UCLA is a past President of the Middle east Studies Association  and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is one of the founders of the field of modern Middle East Studies through his research, scholarship, publication, and participation in the work of the Middle East Studies Association, the Social Science Research Council, and the Mideast Centers at the University of Chicago and at UCLA.