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"This book is a highly valuable contribution to the current debateon how to achieve stabilization and structural adjustment programs in the MiddleEast presenting widely differing country profiles." -- Digest of Middle EastStudies
"This book is an excellent collection of ten countrycase-studies by well-known Middle East political scientists... " -- MESABulletin
..". a highly original and valuable contribution onan important and most timely topic.... combines clarity of focus and breadth ofgeographic coverage." -- Robert Bianchi
Internationalspecialists take stock of the problems and prospects for privatization of state-runeconomies and other liberalization efforts throughout the Middle East and NorthAfrica.
List of contents
Preface One Privatization: The Issue, the Prospects, and the Fears Iliya Harik Two Extra-State Actors and Privatization in Egypt Denis J. Sullivan Three Privatization in Egypt: The Regional Dimensions Abdel Monem Said Aly Four EgyptOs Liberization Experience and Its Impact on State-Owned Enterprises Khaled Fouad Sherif and Regina M. Soos Five Labor as an Obstacle to Privatization: The Case of Egypt Marsha Pripstein Posusney Six Constraints to Privatization in Turkey Marcie J. Patton Seven Divergent Modes of Economic Liberalization in Syria and Iraq Fred H. Lawson Eight Economic Liberalization in Oil-Exporting Countries: Iraq and Saudi Arabia Kiren Aziz Chaudhry Nine Economic and Political Liberalization in a Rentier Economy: The Case of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Laurie A. Brand Ten Breaking with Socialism: Economic, Liberalization and Privatization in Algeria Dirk Vandewalle Eleven Privatization and Development in Tunisia Iliya Harik Contributors Index
About the author
ILIYA HARIK is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and former Director of the American Research Center in Egypt. He is author of The Political Mobilization of Peasants: A Study of the Egyptian Community and co-editor (with Louis J. Cantori) of Local Politics and Development in the Middle East. DENIS J. SULLIVAN is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is completing a book on private voluntary organizations and development in Egypt.
