Privitization and Liberalization in the Middle East

"This book is a highly valuable contribution to the current debate on how to achieve stabilization and structural adjustment programs in the Middle East presenting widely differing country profiles." --Digest of Middle East Studies

"This book is an excellent collection of ten country case-studies by well-known Middle East political scientists... " --MESA Bulletin

"... a highly original and valuable contribution on an important and most timely topic.... combines clarity of focus and breadth of geographic coverage." --Robert Bianchi

International specialists take stock of the problems and prospects for privatization of state-run economies and other liberalization efforts throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

ILIYA HARIK is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and former Director of the American Research Center in Egypt. He is author of The Political Mobilization of Peasants: A Study of the Egyptian Community and co-editor (with Louis J. Cantori) of Local Politics and Development in the Middle East. DENIS J. SULLIVAN is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is completing a book on private voluntary organizations and development in Egypt.

Preface

One Privatization: The Issue, the Prospects, and the Fears

Iliya Harik

Two Extra-State Actors and Privatization in Egypt

Denis J. Sullivan

Three Privatization in Egypt: The Regional Dimensions

Abdel Monem Said Aly

Four Egypt's Liberization Experience and Its Impact on State-Owned Enterprises

Khaled Fouad Sherif and Regina M. Soos

Five Labor as an Obstacle to Privatization: The Case of Egypt

Marsha Pripstein Posusney

Six Constraints to Privatization in Turkey

Marcie J. Patton

Seven Divergent Modes of Economic Liberalization in Syria and Iraq

Fred H. Lawson

Eight Economic Liberalization in Oil-Exporting Countries: Iraq and Saudi Arabia

Kiren Aziz Chaudhry

Nine Economic and Political Liberalization in a Rentier Economy: The Case of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Laurie A. Brand

Ten Breaking with Socialism: Economic, Liberalization and Privatization in Algeria

Dirk Vandewalle

Eleven Privatization and Development in Tunisia

Iliya Harik

Contributors

Index