Development Challenges and Solutions After the Arab Spring

Samir Amin, Third World Forum.Samia Botmeh, Birzeit University, Palestine.Ray Bush, University of Leeds, UK.Shaun Ferguson, United Nations Conference and Trade and Development (UNCTAD).Samir Makdisi, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.Linda Matar,National University of Singapore.Fadle Mustafa Naqib, University of Waterloo, Canada.Alfredo Saad-Filho, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK. Yasuhisa Yamamoto, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA).Rami Zurayk, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.

• Introduction: Arab Development via the Channels of War and Oil; A. Kadri PART I: POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. Egypt: Failed Emergence, Conniving Capitalism, Fall of the Muslim Brothers, A Possible Popular Alternative; Samir Amin 2. The Failure of Arab Macro Policy; Fadle Naqib 3. The Unravelling of Arab Autocracy: Socio-Economic Factors in Context; Samir Makdisi 4. Transcending Neoliberalism through Pro-Poor and Democratic Economic Development Strategies; Alfredo Saad Filho PART II: MACROECONOMICS 5. Monetary Regimes and Socioeconomic Stability: A Missing Link in the 'Arab Spring'?; Yasuhisa Yamamoto 6. Diagnosing Constraints to Industrialisation in the Middle East, a Predatory Perspective; Shaun Ferguson PART III: THE AGRARIAN QUESTION: 7. The Arab Uprisings through an Agrarian Lens; Rami Zurayk 8. Uprisings without Agrarian Questions; Ray Bush PART IV: TWO CASES OF DEVELOPMENT UNDER CONFLICT 9. The Political Economy of Palestinian Women's Labour Market Participation; Samia Al-Botmeh 10. Investment and Neoliberalism in Syria; Linda Matar and Ali Kadri PART V: CLOSING COMMENT 11. Arab Disintegration and the Right to Development; Ali Kadri