Arab Society in Revolt: The West's Mediterranean Challenge

Contributors

roberto aliboni is senior research adviser for the European Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona, and a scientific counselor for the Italian Institute of International Affairs (IAI), Rome. He served as both director and vice president at the IAI, has held research positions with various Italian think tanks, and has taught at the universities of Naples and Perugia. In 1993–94 he conceived of and successfully established the Mediterranean Study Commission, a network of Mediterranean institutes dealing with security and international affairs, which became the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission in 1996. He has published numerous articles and books on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern security and international relations. carlos a. primo braga has been the special representative and director for Europe, External Affairs Vice-Presidency, at the World Bank since January 2011. In 2008–10 he was director of the Economic Policy and Debt Department at the World Bank. He has also served as the acting vice president and corporate secretary of the World Bank Group and as acting executive secretary of the Development Committee. Braga has a degree in mechanical engineering and masters and doctoral degrees in economics. He has contributed to the economics literature on sovereign debt, growth and innovation, and international trade. gary r. bunt is a reader in Islamic studies and the director of the masters Islamic studies program at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.His primary 253 Contributors research focuses on Islam, Muslims, and the Internet. His most recent book is iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam, which discusses how, in some contexts, the Internet has had an overarching transformational effect on how Muslims practice Islam,how forms of Islam are represented to the wider world,and how Muslim societies perceive themselves and their peers. Bunt is preparing a work on Muslims in Britain and on social networking–web 2.0 issues. His research website can be found at www.virtuallyislamic.com. gonzalo escribano is director of the Energy program at the Real Instituto Elcano de Relaciones Internacionales and professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Spanish Open University (UNED), Madrid. He is a member of several Euro-Mediterranean networks and a researcher with the Research Group on International Political Economy (UNED). Escribano has lectured at several universities and masters programs in Spain and abroad and has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and other pieces of research on the political economy, geoeconomics, and geopolitics of the Mediterranean and the Arab world and Euro-Mediterranean economic relations . He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. philippe fargues, a sociologist and demographer, is currently the director of the Migration Policy Centre, which he founded at the European University Institute in Florence. He has been director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, senior researcher at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris, visiting professor at Harvard, and director of the Centre for Economic Legal and Social Studies in Cairo. His research interests include migration and refugee movements, population and politics in Muslim countries, family building, and demography and development. He has published more than 150 scientific articles and books on these topics and lectured at a number of universities in Europe, America, Africa, and the Middle East. caroline freund is chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region,World Bank. She has also worked at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Board. Freund is an expert on economic growth, international trade, and international finance; her work covers the developing world and transition countries. She has authored numerous academic and 254 Contributors policy papers on international trade, development, and current account adjustment. Freund holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. jonathan laurence is associate professor of political science at Boston College and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He recently served as a senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy and as a visiting researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Laurence’s most recent book is The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims, and he has published numerous essays in such journals as European Political Science and Foreign Policy. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. alejandro lorca is program director for the Master of International Relations and Security: Geo-economics and Geopolitics at the Lauren Klein Institute of the Autonomous University...