Eva Bellin
Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics in the Department of Politics and the Crown Center for Middle East Studies
Eva Bellin is a comparativist whose interests center on issues of democratization and authoritarian persistence, political and economic reform, civil society, religion and politics, and the politics of cultural change. She is the author of Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State Sponsored Development and co-editor of "Building Rule of Law in the Arab World." She has published in a variety of venues including World Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, World Development, Foreign Affairs, Middle East Policy, as well as numerous edited books.
In 2006-2008, she was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, supporting her research on high courts in the Middle East and Islamic World. She was also named a Fellow at the Princeton Institute for Regional and International Studies, Democracy and Development Program in 2006-2007. In 2015, she was awarded the Dean's Mentoring Award for outstanding work in mentoring graduate students. Bellin has served on the editorial board of the journal Comparative Politics since 2005. She has conducted field work in Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, and Pakistan and earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard University and her PhD at Princeton University.
Education
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Princeton University, PhD
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Princeton University, MA
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Harvard University, BA
Books
Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State Sponsored Development. New York: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Bellin, Eva R. and Heidi Lane, ed. Building Rule of Law in the Arab World. 2016 ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2016.
Refereed Articles
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"The Puzzle of Democratic Divergence in the Arab World: Theory Confronts Experience in Egypt and Tunisia." Political Science Quarterly Summer 2018. (2018).
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"The Robustness of Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Lessons of the Arab Spring." Comparative Politics 44. 2 (2012): 127-149.
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"The Dog that Didn't Bark: The Political Complacence of the Emerging Middle Class (with Illustrations from the Middle East)." Political Power and Social Theory 21. (2010): 125-141.
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"Faith in Politics: New Trends in the Study of Religion and Politics." World Politics 60. January (2008): 315-47.
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"The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective." Political Science Quarterly 119:4 (Winter). (2005): 595-608.
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"The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective." Comparative Politics 36. 2 (2004): 139-157.
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"Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and Democratization in Late-Developing Countries." World Politics 52. 2 (2000): 175-205.
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"The Politics of Profit in Tunisia: Utility of the Rentier Paradigm?." World Development 22. 3 (1994): 427-436.
Book Chapters
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"Building Rule of Law in the Arab World: Paths to Realization." Building Rule of Law in the Arab World. Bellin, Eva R. and Heidi Lane, ed. 2016 ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2016.
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"Lessons, Challenges, and Puzzles for Building Rule of Law in the Arab World." Building Rule of Law in the Arab World. Bellin, Eva R. and Heidi Lane, ed. 2016 ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2016.
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"From Authoritarianism to People Power in the MENA: Implications for Inclusion and Equity." Getting Development Right: Structural Transformation, Inclusion, and Sustainability in the Post-Crisis Era. Ed. Eva Paus. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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"A Modest Transformation: Political Change in the Arab World after the Arab Spring." Arab Awakenings, Democratic Transitions?. Ed. Clement Henry and Ji-Hyang Jang. ASAN Institute, 2012
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"The Political Economic Conundrum: The Affinity of Economic and Political Reform in the Middle East and North Africa." Uncharted Journey: Democracy Promotion in the Middle East. Ed. Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005
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"Civil Society in Formation: Tunisia." Civil Society in the Middle East. Ed. Augustus Richard Norton. E.J. Brill, 1995
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"Tunisian Industrialists and the State." Tunisia: The Political Economy of Reform. Ed. I. William Zartman. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1991. 45-65.
Policy Briefs and Short Pieces
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"Explaining Democratic Divergence." The Arab Thermidor: Revenge of the Security State. Ed. Marc Lynch. George Washington University, 2015
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"The Persistence of Surprise in Middle East Politics." PS: Political Science and Politics 47: 03. (2014).
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"The Road to Rule of Law in the Arab World: Comparative Insights." Middle East Brief 84 (2014).
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"Pondering the Extraordinary: Description, Explanation, and Theorization of the Arab Spring." Bustan: The Middle East Book Review (2014).
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"Drivers of Democracy: Lessons from Tunisia." Middle East Brief 75 (2013).
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"Beyond the Arab Spring." Brandeis Magazine. Fall 2010.
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"Lessons from the Jasmine and Nile Revolutions: Possibilities of Political Transformation in the Middle East." Middle East Brief 50 (2011)
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Bellin, Eva R. and Peter Krause. "Intervention in Syria: Reconciling Moral Premises and Realistic Outcomes." Middle East Brief 64 (2012)
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"Thinking about Democracy and Revolution in the Middle East: Why Now?." Jewish Review of Books (2011).
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"Realistic Idealism and Democracy Promotion in the Middle East." Middle East Policy XV. 4 (January) (2009): 138-140.
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"Democratization and its Discontents." Foreign Affairs 87. 4 (2008): 112-119.
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"Doubting Democracy in Iraq." Harvard Magazine. (July 2003): 29-30.
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"Economic and Political Liberalization in the Middle East." Comparative Political Studies 28. 3 (October) (1995): 479-483.
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"Civil Society: Effective Tool of Analysis for Middle East Politics?" Political Science and Politices 27.3 (September) (1994)