Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

28 August 200828 November 2017 Christopher M. Davidson ECIA Fellow

New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 Dubai has a remarkable success story. Since its origins as a small

ICT and the Gulf Arab States: A Force for Democracy?

28 August 200828 November 2017 Emma Murphy Emma C. Murphy, Senior Fellow at the ECIA, is Professor in Middle East Political Economy at School of Government & International Affairs of Durham University. She is also Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the same university, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. Prof. Murphy holds a PhD degree from University of Exeter. Emma C. Murphy’s personal page at Durham University Outreach Activities The Arab State and (Absent) Civility in New Communicative Spaces Third World Quarterly, Vol. 32, Issue 5, 2011 - 19 May 2011 Learning the Right Lessons from Beijing: A Model for the Arab World? in Robert Springborg (Eds.) "Development Models in Muslim Contexts: Chinese, 'Islamic' and Neo-liberal Alternatives", Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009 - 19 Sep 2009 ICT and the Gulf Arab States: A Force for Democracy? In Anoushiravan Ehteshami & Steven Wright (Eds.), "Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies", London: Ithaca, 2008 - 19 Sep 2008 Institutions, Islam and Democracy Promotion: Explaining the Resilience of the Authoritarian State Mediterranean Politics, vol. 13, n. 3, 2008 Areas of Expertise Arab-Israeli conflict/politics New media in the Middle East Political economy of the Middle East & North Africa

In Anoushiravan Ehteshami & Steven Wright (Eds.), “Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies”, London: Ithaca, 2008 The