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Steven Heydemann

Fellow

Professional affiliation

Professor, Smith College
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Expertise

  • Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
  • Democracy
  • Economics and Globalization
  • Global Governance
  • Governance
  • International Development
  • Society and Culture

Wilson Center Projects

Trajectories of Stateness in the Arab World

Full Biography

In addition to holding the Janet Wright Ketcham 1953 Chair in Middle East Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, Heydemann is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution. Heydemann is a political scientist who specializes in the comparative politics and political economy of the Middle East. His interests include authoritarian governance, economic development, social policy, political and economic reform, and civil society. In addition, Heydemann consults widely with the U.S. government, NGOs, and European governments on issues relating to the Middle East, including Syria policy and the status of the Syrian conflict. Author or editor of numerous books, articles, policy papers, and op eds, he has appeared as a Syria expert on leading media outlets, including the BBC, al-Arabiyya, al-Jazeera, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy Journal and PBS.

Major Publications

  • Steven Heydemann and Marc Lynch, eds., Making Sense of the Arab State. University of Michigan Press, 2024,
  • 鈥淩ethinking Social Contracts in the MENA Region: Economic Governance, Contingent Citizenship, and State-Society Relations After the Arab Uprisings.鈥 World Development, 2020.
  • 鈥淐ivil War, Economic Governance, and State Reconstruction in the Arab Middle East.鈥 Daedalus 2018.