Topics in IR: Agents of Change in the Middle East

Examine ways in which international and regional financial and development institutions may be deployed as agents of change in the quest for democracy in the Arab world. A primary focus of this course is on (a) formulating the reform agendas in a manner that not only serves the immediate objective of improving governance, but seeks to do so while simultaneously promoting democratic principles and practices, and (b) facilitating the adoption of such agendas by taking advantage of the centrality of the promotion of good governance and reform to the purview of key international and regional financial and development institutions.