David Mednicoff, assistant professor of public policy, has two new publications.
The first publication, “The Legal Regulation of Migrant Workers, Politics and Identity in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates,” is now a book chapter in Migrant Labour in the Persian Gulf, edited by Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar and published by Columbia University Press (2012). The chapter grew from research supported by a multi-year grant from the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service to study the effects of legal regulations on migrant workers in Doha and Dubai.
Mednicoff’s second recent publication, “The Rule of Law and Arab Political Liberalization: Three Models for Change,” appears in the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy (Vol. 1: 55-83). In it, Mednicoff argues that there are multiple ways in which the rule of law can lead to more open politics in the Middle East and North Africa.