Miriam Lowi

Associate Professor

Miriam Lowi is from Montreal, Canada. Her B.A., in History and Economics, is from McGill University; her M.A. and Ph.D., in Politics, are from  Princeton University. Her research and teaching interests are in Middle East Politics and the Comparative Political Economy of Development. She has written extensively on conflict over scarce water in the Middle East. Her more recent work focuses on the political economy of development in oil-exporting states of the Middle East and North Africa. Her major publications include:

Water and Power: the Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin, Cambridge University Press, 1993/95

Environment and Security: Discourses and Practices, MacMillan/Palgrave, 2000 (with Brian Shaw)

"Algeria, 1992-2002: Anatomy of a Civil War," in Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis, eds., Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis, The World Bank, 2005

“War-Torn or Systemically Distorted?: Rebuilding the Algerian Economy” in, Leonard Binder, ed., Rebuilding War-Torn Economies in the Middle East and North Africa, Palgrave, 2007