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1. For a review of this literature by a major contributor to it, see Schwedler (Citation2011).
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Robert Springborg
Robert Springborg (PhD, Stanford) is a visiting professor in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and a non-resident research fellow of the Italian Institute of International Affairs. Until October 2013, he was professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and program manager for the Middle East at the Center for Civil–Military Relations. From 2002 until 2008 he held the MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he also served as director of the London Middle East Institute. Before taking up that chair he was director of the American Research Center in Egypt. From 1973 until 1999 he taught in Australia, where he was university professor of Middle East politics at Macquarie University. His publications include: Mubarak's Egypt: fragmentation of the political order; Family power and politics in Egypt; Legislative politics in the Arab world (co-authored with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux); Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East (co-authored with Clement M. Henry); Oil and democracy in Iraq; Development models in Muslim contexts: Chinese, ‘Islamic’ and neo-liberal alternatives; and several editions of Politics in the Middle East (co-authored with James A Bill). Email: [email protected]