Associate Professor

Office: 1705 HW
Phone: 212-772-5666
Email:ebellin@hunter.cuny.edu

Office Hours (Fall 2009)
Wednesdays: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Thursdays: 9:00 - 9:45 AM

• Comparative Politics
• Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
• Democratization
• Political Economy of Development
• Religion and Politics

• PolSc 117: Introduction to Comparative Politics
• PolSc 263: Government and Politics in the Middle East
• PolSc 272.15: Politics of Islamic Resurgence
• PolSc 372.62: The Struggle for Palestine/Israel

Education:
Ph.D., Princeton University
B.A., Harvard University

• "Democratization and its Discontents," Foreign Affairs 87 (4) (July/August 2008).
• "Faith in Politics: New Trends in the Study of Religion and Politics," World Politics 60 (January 2008):  315-47.
• "The Political-Economic Conundrum: The Affinity of Economic and Political Reform in the Middle East and North Africa," in Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway (eds.) Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005).
• "The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical
  Perspective," Political Science Quarterly 119 (4) (Winter 2004-2005):  595-608.
• “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East,” Comparative
  Politics (January 2004):  139-57.
• "Bringing Iraq Back? Doubts about Democracy" in Harvard Magazine, July 2003.
• Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development (Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 2002).
• "Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and the State in Late-Developing Countries," World Politics 52 (2) (January 2000):  175-205.