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Nathan J. Brown ◄
Website updated 7 August 2015
Professor of Political
Science and International Affairs
The George Washington University
Director, Institute for Middle East
Studies
Nonresident Senior Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie web page for Nathan Brown available here
Education
Ph. D., Politics, Princeton
University, 1987
Center for Arabic Studies
Abroad, Cairo, 1983-4
M.A., Politics, Princeton
University, 1983
B.A., University of Chicago,
1980
E-mail: nbrown at gwu.edu
Recent teaching
Graduate Seminar, “Democracy and Democratization in Comparative
Perspective” spring 2014
Graduate Seminar, “Religion and Society in the Middle East,”
spring 2014
Undergraduate class, “Comparative Politics of the Middle East”
fall 2013
Graduate seminar, “Comparative Politics of the Middle East,”
fall 2013
Undergraduate class, “Democracy and
Democratization in Global Perspective” spring 2011
Selected interviews, testimony, and major op-eds
available on the web
Videos, podcasts, and audio
interviews available on the web
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Recent Research
Books
Constitutionalism, the rule of law & the
politics of administration in Egypt & Iran. (edited book manuscript
with Said Arjomand; SUNY Press, 2012).
When Victory is Not an
Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics, to be published by
Cornell University Press, January 2012 (Arabic edition published December 2011).
The Dynamics of
Democratization: Dictatorship, Development, and Diffusion (edited book, Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2011)
Between Religion and
Politics (with Amr Hamzawy; Carnegie Endowment, 2010)
The Struggle over
Democratization in the Middle East (edited with Emad Eldin
Shahin; Routledge, 2009)
Palestinian Politics after
the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2003)
Constitutions in a
Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws & the Prospects for Accountable
Government (SUNY
Press, 2001)
The Rule of Law in the Arab
World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf (Cambridge
University Press, 1997)
Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt (Yale University Press, 1990)
Work on Palestinian politics
available on the web
Work on Egyptian politics
available on the web
Work on Arab legal systems
available on the web
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