► Nathan J. Brown ◄
Website updated 24 August 2012 Professor of The George Washington University Nonresident Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Carnegie web page for Nathan Brown available here
Curriculum vitae |
Recent Research
Books Constitutionalism,
the rule of law & the politics of administration in Egypt & Iran. (edited
book manuscript with Said Arjomand; forthcoming
SUNY Press, 2013). 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 ( 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) When Victory Becomes an
Option: The Muslim Brotherhood Confronts Success, Carneige Paper, January 2012 The Muslim Brotherhood as
Helicopter Parent, Foreign Policy, 27 May 2011 The Brotherhoods Coming-Out
Party, Carnegie commentary, 24 March 2011 Will Slow and Steady Win the
Race? Foreign Policy, 28 February 2011 Islamists: Politics Beckons
Once Again, Carnegie commentary 22 February 2011 The Irrelevance of the
International Muslim Brotherhood, Foreign Policy,
20 September 2010 The Muslim Brotherhood's
(and Egypt's) Qutb Conundrum, Foreign
Policy, 17 May 2010 The Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood: Islamist Participation in a Closing Political Environment,
with Amr Hamzawy, Carnegie paper, March 2010 Kuwaiti Democracy in Crisis,
Islam On Line, May 2009 Kuwaits 2008 Parliamentary
Elections: A Setback for Democratic Islamism, Carnegie web commentary,
May 2008 The Draft Party Platform of
the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Foray Into Political Integration or Retreat
Into Old Positions? with Amr Hamzawy, Carnegie Paper, January
2008 What Islamists Need to be
Clear About: The Case of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,
Carnegie Web Commentary, February 2007 (with Amr Hamzawy and Marina Ottaway) Pushing Toward Party
Politics? Kuwaits Islamic Constitutional Movement,
Carnegie Paper, January 2007 [Note: Mohammed Hussein Al-Dallal of the Islamic Constitutional Movement issued a
response to this paper] Jordan and Its Islamist Movement:
The Limits of Inclusion? Carnegie Paper, November 2006 Islamist Movements and the
Democratic Process in the Arab World: Exploring Gray Zones,
Carnegie Paper No. 67, March 2006, with Amr Hamzawy and Marina Ottaway Work on Palestinian politics available on the web Gaza Five Years On: Hamas
Settles in, Carnegie Paper June 2012 Is Hamas Mellowing?
Carnegie Web Commentary, 17 January 2012 Palestine: The Fire Next
Time? Carnegie Web Commentary, 6 July 2011 No Savior for Palestine,
Foreign Policy 17 June 2011 Palestinians: The
Unsustainable May No Longer be Sustainable, Carnegie Web
Commentary, 22 February 2011 Studying Palestinian
Politics: Scholarship or Scholasticism? Fayyad Is Not the Problem,
but Fayyadism Is Not the Solution to Palestines
Political Crisis, Carnegie Web Commentary, 17 September 2010 Are Palestinians Building a
State? Carnegie Web Commentary, June 2010 After Abu Mazin? Letting the
Scales Fall From Our Eyes, Carnegie Web Commentary, November 2009 Palestine: the Schism
Deepens, Carnegie Web Commentary, August 2009 The Green Elephant in the
Room: Dealing with the Hamas Party-State in Gaza, Carnegie Web
Commentary, June 2009 Palestine and Israel: Time
for Plan B, Carnegie Policy Brief, February 2009 Middle East Peacemaking Has
Failed, Foreign Policy, February 2009 Another Look at Israels
Hamas Portfolio, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs,
2009 Pointers for the Obama
Administration in the Middle East: Avoiding Myths and Vain Hopes
Carnegie Web Commentary, January 2009 Can Cairo Reassemble
Palestine? Carnegie Web Commentary, November 2008 Palestinian Presidential
Elections, Carnegie Web Commentary, July 2008 Sunset for the Two State
Solution? Carnegie Policy Brief No.58, May 2008 The Road Out of Gaza,
Carnegie Policy Outlook No. 39, February 2008 The Peace Process Has No
Clothes: The Decay of the Palestinian Authority and the International
Response, Carnegie Web Commentary, June 15, 2007 Requiem for Palestinian
Reform: Clear Lessons from a Troubled Record, Carnegie Paper,
February 2007 What Can Abu Mazin Do?
Carnegie Web Commentary, October 20, 2006, updated June 15, 2007 Living with Palestinian
Democracy, Carnegie Policy Brief No. 46, May 2006 Aftermath of the Hamas
Tsunami, Carnegie Web Commentary, February 2, 2006 Evaluating Palestinian
Reform, Carnegie Paper 59, June 2005 Translation and commentary
on draft Palestinian constitution (May 2003 draft), published by
the The Palestinian Reform
Agenda, Peaceworks report No. 48,
United States Institute of Peace, December 2002 Democracy, History, and the
Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum, paper presented at the Adam
Institute Conference on Attitudes toward the Past in Conflict Resolution,
The International
Controversy Concerning Palestinian Textbooks, lecture delivered
at the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, December
2002. Short summary of research on
Palestinian textbooks that originally appeared in Teaching about
Terrorism a publication of CAJE, the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish
Education. Work on Egyptian politics available on the web Morsis Ramadan Surprise,
Carnegie Web Commentary, 13 August 2012 The Egyptian Political
System in Disarray, Carnegie Web Commentary, 19 June 2012 Cairos Judicial Coup,
Foreign
Policy, 14 June 2012 Fasten Your Seatbelts:
Judicial Turbulence Ahead, Carnegie Web Commentary, 6 June 2012 A Guide through the Egyptian
Maze of Justice, Carnegie Web Commentary, 6 June 2012 Egypt and the Islamic Shari`a: A Guide for the Perplexed, Carnegie
Web Commentary, 15 May 2012. Will Egypt Get a New Interim
Constitution? Foreign Policy, 23 May 2012 Egypts Transition Imbroglio,
Foreign
Policy, 16 April 2012 Midnight for the SCAFs Cinderella Story, Foreign Policy 19 March
2012 Egypts Judges in a
Revolutionary Age, Carnegie Paper, February 2012 The Evolution within the
Revolution, Foreign Policy 28 February 2012 Landmines in Egypts
Constitutional Roadmap, Carnegie Web Commentary, 7 December 2011 Post-Revolutionary Al-Azhar, Carnegie Paper, October 2011 Can the Colossus Be
Salvaged? Egypts State-Owned Press in a Post-Revolutionary Environment,
Carnegie Web Commentary, 22 August 2011
The Trial of the Century,
Foreign Policy, 3 August 2011 Egypts Revolution Stumbles
Forward, Carnegie Web Commentary, 15 June 2011 A Haphazard Constitutional
Compromise, Carnegie Web Commentary (with Kristin Stilt), 11
April 2011 Why Nobody Noticed What
Egypts Opposition Has Won, Foreign Policy, 28
March 2011 Egypts Revolution Struggles
to Take Shape, Carnegie Web Commentary, 17 March 2011 Egypt's Syndicalist
Future? Foreign Policy. 8 March 2011 Egypts Draft Constitutional
Amendments Answer Some Questions and Raise Others, Carnegie Web
Commentary, 1 March 2011 The Struggle to Define the
Egyptian Revolution, Foreign Policy, 17 February
2011 An Observers Guide to
Egyptian Succession, Carnegie Web Commentary, 17 November 2010 EgyptDont Give up on
Democracy Promotion, Carnegie Policy Brief, June 2007 (with
Michele Dunne and Amr Hamzawy) Egypts Controversial
Constitutional Amendments, Carnegie Web Commentary, March 2007
(with Michele Dunne and Amr Hamzawy) Can Egypts Troubled
Elections Produce a More Democratic Future, with Amr Hamzawy,
Carnegie Policy Outlook, December 2005 Egypts Judges Step Forward:
The Judicial Election Boycott and Egyptian Reform, with Hesham
Nasr, Carnegie Policy Outlook, May 2005 Work on Arab legal systems available on the web Why Wont Saudi Arabia Write
down its own Laws, Foreign Policy, 23 January 2012 Americans, Put Away Your
Quills, Foreign Policy, 8 November 2011 Do Tunisians Agree on More
Than They Realize? Foreign Policy, 9 August 2011 Constitutional Rebirth: Islamic law and the Egyptian constitution; two article with Clark
Lombardi Do Constitutions Requiring
Adherence to Shari`a Threaten Human Rights? How
Egypt's Constitutional Court Reconciles Islamic Law with the Liberal Rule of
Law, 21 The Supreme Constitutional
Court of Egypt on Islamic Law, Veiling and Civil Rights: An Annotated
Translation of Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Case No. 8 of Judicial
Year 17 (May 18, 1996), 21 Islam, Human Rights, and
Constitutionalism, video of lecture delivered at The Religious Aspects of
Arab Constitutions, video of lecture delivered at Criminal Justice and
Prosecution in the Arab World, study prepared with Hesham Nasr
and Jill Crystal for the United Nations Development Program, Program on
Governance in the Arab Region, October 2004 Constitutions and
Accountable Governments in the Arab world, 2003 Constitution
Address, Judicial Independence in the
Arab World, study prepared with Dr. Arab Judicial Structures,
study prepared for the United Nations Development Program, Program on
Governance in the Arab Region, August 2001 Mechanisms of Accountability
in Arab Governance: The Present and Future of Judiciaries and Legislatures in
the Arab World, study prepared for the United Nations Development
Program, Program on Governance in the Arab Region, December 2001 Women and Law in the Muslim
World, unpublished paper, 1996 Arab Administrative Courts and
Judicial Control of the Bureaucracy, paper presented to the
annual conference of the Structure of Government Section, International
Political Science Association, |