Economic Reform and Democracy: Can the Middle East Compete?

Issue Date April 1995
Volume 6
Issue 2
Page Numbers 113-27
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About the Author

Henri Barkey is associate professor of international relations at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and has been a visiting scholar at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of The State and the Industrialization Crisis in Turkey (1990), as well as the editor of The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East (1992).

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