Professor Harik taught in the fields of comparative
politics, political development, and Middle Eastern politics.
He is mainly interested in studies of comparative democracy,
rural development, economic development policy and the
international economic order. Professor Harik's most recent
publications are: Democratic Theory and Modernity: Western and
Islamic Perspectives, London and Beirut: al-Saqi publishers,
2001 (In Arabic); Economic Policy Reform in Egypt, The
University Press of Florida, 1997, Paperback edition,
American University in Cairo Press, 1998; Privatization and
Liberalization in the Middle East, co-edited with Denis
Sullivan, Indiana University Press, 1992; "Democratic Thought
in the Arab World: an Alternative to the Patron State," in
Between the State and Islam, eds. Charles E. Butterworth and
I. William Zartman, Woodrow Wilson Center 2001; "The Illusive
Path to Development," Economic Research Forum, December 1995;
"Rethinking Civil Society: Pluralism in the Arab World,"
Journal of Democracy, (July, 1994); Reprinted in The Global
Resurgence of Democracy, eds.Larry Diamond and Marc F.
Plattner, The John Hopkins University Press, 1996; The Arabs
and the New International Economic Order (in Arabic), editor
and co-author, (1983); and Local Politics and Development in
the Middle East, co-editor and co-author, (1984); Distribution
of Land, Employment and Income in Rural Egypt, (1979); The
Political Mobilization of Peasants: A Study of an Egyptian
Community, (1974). He has also contributed articles to the
American Political Science Review, World Politics, Middle East
Journal, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,
Middle Eastern Studies (London), Journal of Arab Affairs,
American Universities Field Staff Reports, and to several
edited volumes, the most recent being: Mark Tessler et al,
(eds.) The Evaluation and Application of Survey Research in
the Arab World, (1987). Barbara F. Stowasser (ed.), The
Islamic Impulse, (1987). The Foundations of the Arab State,
(ed.) Ghassan Salame, (1987). Tachau, Landau and Ozbudun
(eds.), Electoral Politics in the Middle East, (1980); Elites
in the Middle East, I. William Zartman (ed.). (1980; Manpower
Problems in the Arab World, T. Hori (ed.), (1981); and Fuad
Khuri (ed.), Political Developments and Elites in the Middle
East, (1981). Translated and published in Arabic in Qadaya
Arabiya, March 1980.
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