Clement M. Henry
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In addition to the politics of international oil, Henry's research interests include Middle Eastern responses to globalization, banking systems in Islamic Mediterranean countries, Islamic banking, and the development of civil societies in the Arab world. He is currently focusing on North Africa, especially Algeria, the source of his original interest in the region in the late 1950s, and is working with his coauthor (Robert Springborg)on a 2nd edition of "Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East" (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which presents a dialectical analysis of economic development strategies in the region. "The Mediterranean Debt Crescent" (1996) examines interrelationships between financial and political liberalization in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco,Tunisia, and Turkey. Henry previously taught at the American University in Cairo, and the American University of Beirut, where he directed the AUB Business School from 1981 to 1984.

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Egypt Without Mubaraks: Sampson Option or New Political Order?

Posted January 31, 2011 | 09:14:59 (EST)

Egypt's demonstrators have chased President Hosni Mubarak and his son Gamal from power, but their regime might survive. All now depends on how extensive, protracted and violent the conflict between its security forces and demonstrators becomes, and whether the army remains loyal. A preemptive strategy might salvage the regime, now...

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The Tunisian Army: Defending the Beachhead of Democracy in the Arab World

Posted January 26, 2011 | 11:27:01 (EST)

A litmus test of democracy is civilian control of the military exercised through representative institutions, a test which to date no Arab state has passed. Tunisia appears to be on the verge of achieving this historic breakthrough, an outcome that paradoxically the military itself has made possible.

The Jasmine...

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