Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Eric Davis

Eric Davis is professor of political science at Rutgers University. He is author, most recently, of Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 2005).

MER Article

The Puzzle of Federalism in Iraq

Reidar Visser and Gareth Stansfield, eds., An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? (London: Hurst and Company, 2007).

Eric Davis • 11 min read

MER Article

Goldberg, Tinker, Tailor and Textile Worker

Ellis Goldberg, Tinker, Tailor and Textile Worker: Class and Politics in Egypt, 1930-1952 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986). The critique of modernization theory that began in the late 1960s had an especially significant impact on a new generation of Western scholars who rejected

Eric Davis • 4 min read

MER Article

The Middle East Arms Race

Andrew J. Pierre, The Global Politics of Arms Sales (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982). Paul Jabber, Not By War Alone: Security and Arms Control in the Middle East (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981). Steve Weissman and Herbert Krosney, The Islamic Bomb: The Nuclear Thr

Eric Davis, James Paul • 7 min read

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Gran, Islamic Roots of Capitalism

Peter Gran, Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979).

Eric Davis • 6 min read