Current Research Topics

The new Arab Gulf: power, wealth and responsibility in the global economy

Selected Publications

Qadhafi's Revolution 1969-1994, editor, St. Martin's Press, 1995; North Africa: Development and Reform in a Changing Global Economy, editor, St. Martin's Press, 1996; Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-Building, Cornell University Press, 1998; “Social Contracts, Institutional Development and Economic Growth and Reform in Middle East Oil Exporters,” background paper in The Employment Challenge in the 21st Century; From Labor Force Growth to Job Creation, regional economic report on the Middle East and North Africa, The World Bank, 2004; A History of Modern Libya, Cambridge University Press, 2006; Libya Since 1969: Qadhafi's Revolution Revisited, editor, Palgrave, 2008; editor with C. Davidson, Hurst/Columbia University Press series on the Contemporary Arab Gulf

Working Papers

With Steffen Hertog, “Tribal Chaos versus Tribal Order: Patrimonial Control Strategies in Libya and Saudi Arabia”; The New Arab Gulf: Power, Wealth and Responsibility in the Global Economy (book)

Professional Activities

Academic positions: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College 1991–97; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1994–95; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Institute for International Development, 1996–97; Fulbright Regional Research Associate, Morocco and Yemen, 1996–97; Fulbright Regional Research Associate, Gulf Research Center, Dubai, 2005–06; Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth College, 2002–03; Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, 2007; Tuck School of Business, 2009

Editorial positions: Editorial Boards, London Middle East Institute; L'Annee du Maghreb (Aix-en-Provence)