Diederick J. Vandewalle
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of Government
Area of Expertise
Libya,
political economy,
Middle East politics,
Commodity booms, institutional development and economic reform in developing countries,
State-building and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa
Education
B.A. Southwest State University
M.I.A. Columbia University
M.A. Columbia University
M. Phil. Columbia University
Ph.D. Columbia University
Taught Courses
Publications
A History of Modern Libya, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
“Social Contracts, Institutional Development and Economic Growth and Reform in Middle East Oil Exporters,” background paper for Tarik Yousef, The Employment Challenge in the 21st Century: From Labor Force Growth to Job Creation , (Summer 2004).
“Education, Citizenship, and Development: The United Arab Emirates,” Arabian Society for Human Resources Management , (Summer 2002).
“Educational Policies and State-building in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf” in Proceedings of the International Conference , Men’s Higher Colleges of Education, (2001).
Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-Building, Cornell University Press, 1998.
Editor, North Africa: Development and Reform in a Changing Global Economy, St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Editor, Qadhafi's Revolution 1969-1994," St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Works in Progress
“Oil, Monarchies and Development: The Politics of Economic Reform in the Arab Gulf”
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