TCNJ News

For Immediate Release

December 10, 2009

Political science professor takes a hard look at oil states

 

EWING, NJ … The latest book by a TCNJ professor analyzes the challenges to regime stability in Algeria and other oil-exporting states.

Miriam Lowi, associate professor of political science, has written extensively on political conflict in the Middle East and North Africa. Her third and most recent book, Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics: Algeria Compared (Cambridge University Press), encompasses research she began in 2000.

Her information-gathering included three research trips to Algeria, during which she interviewed historic figures, politicians, technocrats, industrialists, regime opponents, among others.

Lowi's other published books are Water and Power: the Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin (Cambridge University Press 1993/95) and Environment and Security: Discourses and Practices (MacMillan/Palgrave 2000).

 

 

 

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