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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors are grateful to Jeannie Sowers for her intellectual engagement and organizational support that stretches back to the very genesis of this research project. Aslı Bâli, Najib Hourani, and Aziz Rana all contributed valuable comments on earlier drafts of this essay. This special section emerged out of a workshop titled “Mapping Transnational Networks in the Middle East: Local Logics and Global Processes,” which was part of the Ninth Mediterranean Research Meeting at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, March 12–15, 2008.
Notes
1. Alan Richards and Johns Waterbury, A Political Economy of the Middle East: State, Class, and Economic Development, 1st ed. (Boulder: Westview 1990) p. 1.
2. Alan Richards and Johns Waterbury, A Political Economy of the Middle East, 3rd ed. (Boulder: Westview 2008) pp. xiii–xiv.