MDC Research and Analysis

MDC Principal Research Fellow Dr. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman examines Moroccan Islamism.

In the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Paul Rivlin examines the political economy of inflation control in Turkey between 1980 and 2001 and Israel between 1980 and 1985.

This study of Palestinian and Israeli intellectuals was conceived during more optimistic times. It was based on the premise that they had contributed in some way to what was hopefully an "irreversible" peace process, and would play significant roles in shaping longer term political and social processes subsequent to the apparently imminent final status accord. The failure of the peace negotiations and the renewed descent into violence in September 2000 forced a reevaluation but did not alter my belief that the activities of thinkers, writers and educators of the two adversarial communities remained worthy of study. The anger and frustration voiced by each side's intellectuals towards the other's during the last two years confirmed that they themselves believed that their actions still counted for something, their lack of military divisions notwithstanding.

In Middle Eastern Studies, Uzi Rabi discusses the development of state institutions and political culture in Oman.

Principal Research Fellow Dr. Bruce Maddy-Weizman analyses the relationship between the Amazigh (Berbers) and the North African state in the Journal of North African Studies.