Steven Heydemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Heydemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Heydemann |
| SIGNATURE | HEYDEMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Institute of Peace |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0596-0134 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Making Sense of the Arab State
A macro overview of state formation in the Middle East that explores the paradox that highly resilient regimes and weak states coexist in much of the area. It deploys historical sociological approaches to state formation including the notion of degrees of statehood; and the origins of weak statehood in the export of the Westphalian state from the core manifested in territory-identity incongruence, economic dependency, the protection of weak state…
Catherine E. Herrold
The Syrian Conflict
The Syrian conflict presents as a case that has been well‐studied in the power‐sharing literature. It is typically coded as an ethno‐sectarian civil war moving towards a decisive military victory by an authoritarian regime and thus unlikely to end in a power‐sharing agreement. Yet Syria's experience offers important insights into the effects of new conflict environments on prospects for power‐sharing in ‘hard’ cases. Syria's conflict exhibits att…
Rethinking social contracts in the Mena region
Civil War, Economic Governance & State Reconstruction in the Arab Middle East
Civil wars currently underway in Libya, Syria, and Yemen demonstrate that patterns of economic governance during violent conflict exhibit significant continuity with prewar practices, raising important questions along three lines. First, violent conflict may disrupt prewar practices less than is often assumed. Second, continuity in governance highlights the limits of state fragility frameworks for postconflict reconstruction that view violent con…
Explaining the Arab Uprisings
Drawing on the research presented by contributors to this special issue, this article assesses the analytic opportunities that emerge when the Arab uprisings are conceptualized as moments of transformation rather than as incipient, flawed or failed transitions to democracy. Highlighting critical issues that cut across and link the experiences of political relevant elites (PREs) and mobilized publics in the cases of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yeme…
Sami Moubayed. Syria and the USA
Sami Moubayed has written a fascinating history of the United States-Syrian relationship during the first half of the twentieth century. The role of the U.S. in the Levant during the 1910s–1950s has received relatively little scholarly attention, a neglect that is not entirely surprising. For most of that period the U.S. exhibited little interest in Syria or the broader Levant. American leaders, including President Woodrow Wilson, grudgingly acce…
America's Response to the Arab Uprisings
This article traces the impact of the Arab uprisings on US foreign assistance to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the period since 2011. Despite the Obama administration's rhetoric in support of Arab protesters and their demands for political and economic change, and despite the US President's commitment to place the full weight of the US foreign policy system behind political openings created by mass protests, US foreign assistance pro…
Continuities and Discontinuities in Foreign Assistance
Assessing foreign assistance to Arab states sheds important light on how Western and regional donors have responded to the dramatic changes set in motion by the wave of mass protests that swept across the Middle East in 2011 and beyond. The papers presented in this special issue highlight two essential fingings. First, Western patterns of foreign assistance exhibit remarkable continuity, despite the scale of the uprisings and their effects, and d…
Middle East Authoritarianisms
The developments of early 2011 have left the political landscape of the Middle East changed but recognizable. Even as urgent struggles continue, it remains clear that authoritarianism will survive this transformational moment. The study of authoritarian governance, therefore, remains essential for our understanding of the political dynamics and inner workings of regimes across the region. The contributors to this volume consider the Syrian and Ir…
Après le séisme. Gouvernement économique et politique de masse dans le monde arabe
The revolutionary wave that washed over the Arab world in 2011 swept away the rulers of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen. This article compares the economic policies adopted by the various governments in response to popular dissatisfaction, finding significant similarities between post-authoritarian transition regimes and authoritarian “survivors”. Both have relied on a similar mix of economic strategies : a temporary increase in redistribution, d…
Tracking the “Arab Spring
In response to the uprisings of 2011, Syria’s Assad regime brought the full weight of its repressive apparatus down on the heads of peaceful protesters, provoking reactions that led gradually to civil war. Since then, the regime has been adapting to the new challenges posed by mass uprisings through a process of “authoritarian learning,” and at least some of its methods are being applied elsewhere in the region. It seems that the future of Arab a…
Popular Mobilization in Syria
This paper explores the dynamics and underlying conditions of the first few months of the uprising in Syria, from mid-March 2011 until the summer of that year. Together with the contributions from Dalmasso and Kandil, it exploits the opportunity created by the Arab uprisings to shed new light on patterns of social mobilization and collective action that research programmes focusing on authoritarian resilience had tended to overlook. Specifically,…
C risis in S yria
Authoritarian Learning and Authoritarian Resilience
The spread of protests throughout the Arab world can be viewed as the product of social learning by Arab citizens—a wave effect facilitated by the rapid diffusion of ideas, discourses, and practices from one country to another and their adaptation to local contexts. Yet it less commonly recognized that Arab regimes' counter-revolutionary strategies have also been shaped by processes of learning and diffusion among regime elites, especially among …
Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society
How philanthropic organizations carry out their missions abroad
Institutions and Economic Performance
The New Lion of Damascus
Networks of Privilege in the Middle East
This volume explores the role of informal networks in the politics of Middle Eastern economic reform. The editor's introduction demonstrates how network-based models overcome limitations in existing a
La question de la démocratie dans les travaux sur le monde arabe
C’est trois ans après Mai 68, mais dans son sillage, que se crée le Groupe d’information sur les prisons (dont Michel Foucault sera l’un des porte-parole), à la suite d’une grève de la faim de détenus lancée par des membres de la Gauche prolétarienne. La question carcérale entre alors dans le champ politique. D’une part, parce que tout détenu, fût-il de droit commun, est considéré par ces militants comme victime de la société de classe et invité …
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill this gap, War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore t…
D'Assad à Assad
Heydemann Steven, Bouyssou Rachel. D'Assad à Assad : la politique syrienne n'est pas un théâtre d'ombres. In: Critique internationale, vol. 9. 2000. Politiques de la biosphère, sous la direction de Marie-Claude Smouts. pp. 36-43
D'Assad à Assad
Authoritarian Learning and Authoritarian Resilience
The spread of protests throughout the Arab world can be viewed as the product of social learning by Arab citizens—a wave effect facilitated by the rapid diffusion of ideas, discourses, and practices from one country to another and their adaptation to local contexts. Yet it less commonly recognized that Arab regimes' counter-revolutionary strategies have also been shaped by processes of learning and diffusion among regime elites, especially among …
Tracking the “Arab Spring
In response to the uprisings of 2011, Syria’s Assad regime brought the full weight of its repressive apparatus down on the heads of peaceful protesters, provoking reactions that led gradually to civil war. Since then, the regime has been adapting to the new challenges posed by mass uprisings through a process of “authoritarian learning,” and at least some of its methods are being applied elsewhere in the region. It seems that the future of Arab a…
Popular Mobilization in Syria
This paper explores the dynamics and underlying conditions of the first few months of the uprising in Syria, from mid-March 2011 until the summer of that year. Together with the contributions from Dalmasso and Kandil, it exploits the opportunity created by the Arab uprisings to shed new light on patterns of social mobilization and collective action that research programmes focusing on authoritarian resilience had tended to overlook. Specifically,…
Rethinking social contracts in the Mena region
La question de la démocratie dans les travaux sur le monde arabe
C’est trois ans après Mai 68, mais dans son sillage, que se crée le Groupe d’information sur les prisons (dont Michel Foucault sera l’un des porte-parole), à la suite d’une grève de la faim de détenus lancée par des membres de la Gauche prolétarienne. La question carcérale entre alors dans le champ politique. D’une part, parce que tout détenu, fût-il de droit commun, est considéré par ces militants comme victime de la société de classe et invité …
Explaining the Arab Uprisings
Drawing on the research presented by contributors to this special issue, this article assesses the analytic opportunities that emerge when the Arab uprisings are conceptualized as moments of transformation rather than as incipient, flawed or failed transitions to democracy. Highlighting critical issues that cut across and link the experiences of political relevant elites (PREs) and mobilized publics in the cases of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yeme…
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
The Syrian Conflict
The Syrian conflict presents as a case that has been well‐studied in the power‐sharing literature. It is typically coded as an ethno‐sectarian civil war moving towards a decisive military victory by an authoritarian regime and thus unlikely to end in a power‐sharing agreement. Yet Syria's experience offers important insights into the effects of new conflict environments on prospects for power‐sharing in ‘hard’ cases. Syria's conflict exhibits att…
Civil War, Economic Governance & State Reconstruction in the Arab Middle East
Civil wars currently underway in Libya, Syria, and Yemen demonstrate that patterns of economic governance during violent conflict exhibit significant continuity with prewar practices, raising important questions along three lines. First, violent conflict may disrupt prewar practices less than is often assumed. Second, continuity in governance highlights the limits of state fragility frameworks for postconflict reconstruction that view violent con…
America's Response to the Arab Uprisings
This article traces the impact of the Arab uprisings on US foreign assistance to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the period since 2011. Despite the Obama administration's rhetoric in support of Arab protesters and their demands for political and economic change, and despite the US President's commitment to place the full weight of the US foreign policy system behind political openings created by mass protests, US foreign assistance pro…
Après le séisme. Gouvernement économique et politique de masse dans le monde arabe
The revolutionary wave that washed over the Arab world in 2011 swept away the rulers of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen. This article compares the economic policies adopted by the various governments in response to popular dissatisfaction, finding significant similarities between post-authoritarian transition regimes and authoritarian “survivors”. Both have relied on a similar mix of economic strategies : a temporary increase in redistribution, d…
Continuities and Discontinuities in Foreign Assistance
Assessing foreign assistance to Arab states sheds important light on how Western and regional donors have responded to the dramatic changes set in motion by the wave of mass protests that swept across the Middle East in 2011 and beyond. The papers presented in this special issue highlight two essential fingings. First, Western patterns of foreign assistance exhibit remarkable continuity, despite the scale of the uprisings and their effects, and d…
Institutions and Economic Performance
Is the Middle East different
Is The Middle East Different? Steven Heydemann (bio) Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World. Edited by Ghassan Salamé. I.B. Tauris, 1994. 340 pp. Like many an edited collection of scholarly essays, the volume under review is uneven in quality, and lacks the coherence and sustained attention to a defined problem that are more likely to be found in works by a single author. Chapters in the first section of the book…
International Relations and Politics
Rethinking Middle East Politics
Rethinking Middle East Politics considers a range of debates on the character of political and socioeconomic development in the Middle East, focusing on the linked processes of state formation and capitalist development. Simon Bromley seeks to reformulate the central questions involved in the study of state formation. He builds a comparative framework based on an examination of key developmental processes in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and…
Is the Middle East different
Is The Middle East Different? Steven Heydemann (bio) Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World. Edited by Ghassan Salamé. I.B. Tauris, 1994. 340 pp. Like many an edited collection of scholarly essays, the volume under review is uneven in quality, and lacks the coherence and sustained attention to a defined problem that are more likely to be found in works by a single author. Chapters in the first section of the book…
Between States
Authoritarianism in Syria
For almost forty years Syria has been ruled by a populist authoritarian regime under the Ba'th Party, led since 1970 by President Hafiz al-Asad. The durability and resilience of this regime is a striking contrast to the instability and intense social conflict that preceded the Bath's seizure of power, when Syria was seen as among the least stable of Arab states. This dramatic transition raises questions about how the Ba'th succeeded in constructi…
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill this gap, War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore t…
D'Assad à Assad
Heydemann Steven, Bouyssou Rachel. D'Assad à Assad : la politique syrienne n'est pas un théâtre d'ombres. In: Critique internationale, vol. 9. 2000. Politiques de la biosphère, sous la direction de Marie-Claude Smouts. pp. 36-43
D'Assad à Assad
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
La question de la démocratie dans les travaux sur le monde arabe
C’est trois ans après Mai 68, mais dans son sillage, que se crée le Groupe d’information sur les prisons (dont Michel Foucault sera l’un des porte-parole), à la suite d’une grève de la faim de détenus lancée par des membres de la Gauche prolétarienne. La question carcérale entre alors dans le champ politique. D’une part, parce que tout détenu, fût-il de droit commun, est considéré par ces militants comme victime de la société de classe et invité …
Networks of Privilege in the Middle East
This volume explores the role of informal networks in the politics of Middle Eastern economic reform. The editor's introduction demonstrates how network-based models overcome limitations in existing a
The New Lion of Damascus
Institutions and Economic Performance
Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society
How philanthropic organizations carry out their missions abroad
Authoritarian Learning and Authoritarian Resilience
The spread of protests throughout the Arab world can be viewed as the product of social learning by Arab citizens—a wave effect facilitated by the rapid diffusion of ideas, discourses, and practices from one country to another and their adaptation to local contexts. Yet it less commonly recognized that Arab regimes' counter-revolutionary strategies have also been shaped by processes of learning and diffusion among regime elites, especially among …
Popular Mobilization in Syria
This paper explores the dynamics and underlying conditions of the first few months of the uprising in Syria, from mid-March 2011 until the summer of that year. Together with the contributions from Dalmasso and Kandil, it exploits the opportunity created by the Arab uprisings to shed new light on patterns of social mobilization and collective action that research programmes focusing on authoritarian resilience had tended to overlook. Specifically,…
C risis in S yria
Middle East Authoritarianisms
The developments of early 2011 have left the political landscape of the Middle East changed but recognizable. Even as urgent struggles continue, it remains clear that authoritarianism will survive this transformational moment. The study of authoritarian governance, therefore, remains essential for our understanding of the political dynamics and inner workings of regimes across the region. The contributors to this volume consider the Syrian and Ir…
Après le séisme. Gouvernement économique et politique de masse dans le monde arabe
The revolutionary wave that washed over the Arab world in 2011 swept away the rulers of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen. This article compares the economic policies adopted by the various governments in response to popular dissatisfaction, finding significant similarities between post-authoritarian transition regimes and authoritarian “survivors”. Both have relied on a similar mix of economic strategies : a temporary increase in redistribution, d…
Tracking the “Arab Spring
In response to the uprisings of 2011, Syria’s Assad regime brought the full weight of its repressive apparatus down on the heads of peaceful protesters, provoking reactions that led gradually to civil war. Since then, the regime has been adapting to the new challenges posed by mass uprisings through a process of “authoritarian learning,” and at least some of its methods are being applied elsewhere in the region. It seems that the future of Arab a…
America's Response to the Arab Uprisings
This article traces the impact of the Arab uprisings on US foreign assistance to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the period since 2011. Despite the Obama administration's rhetoric in support of Arab protesters and their demands for political and economic change, and despite the US President's commitment to place the full weight of the US foreign policy system behind political openings created by mass protests, US foreign assistance pro…
Continuities and Discontinuities in Foreign Assistance
Assessing foreign assistance to Arab states sheds important light on how Western and regional donors have responded to the dramatic changes set in motion by the wave of mass protests that swept across the Middle East in 2011 and beyond. The papers presented in this special issue highlight two essential fingings. First, Western patterns of foreign assistance exhibit remarkable continuity, despite the scale of the uprisings and their effects, and d…
Explaining the Arab Uprisings
Drawing on the research presented by contributors to this special issue, this article assesses the analytic opportunities that emerge when the Arab uprisings are conceptualized as moments of transformation rather than as incipient, flawed or failed transitions to democracy. Highlighting critical issues that cut across and link the experiences of political relevant elites (PREs) and mobilized publics in the cases of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yeme…
Sami Moubayed. Syria and the USA
Sami Moubayed has written a fascinating history of the United States-Syrian relationship during the first half of the twentieth century. The role of the U.S. in the Levant during the 1910s–1950s has received relatively little scholarly attention, a neglect that is not entirely surprising. For most of that period the U.S. exhibited little interest in Syria or the broader Levant. American leaders, including President Woodrow Wilson, grudgingly acce…
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