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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Myra & Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;line-height:125%"><a href="http://www.brandeis.edu/directory/choose_user?uid=ebellin"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black;text-decoration:none">Eva Bellin</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
is the author of <i>Stalled Democracy: Capital Labor and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development</i> and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">has written extensively on the authoritarian persistence in the Middle East, the political economy of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;line-height:125%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">2005. She previously taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies,
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