Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

• Addresses a gap in higher education scholarship.

• While there is a growing number of books that look at the financial/economic aspects of higher education, there is very little on the political context of policymaking and on the Arab region as a whole.

• Author is a world-renowned political economist and president emeritus of the American University of Beirut

• Waterbury is co-author of the classic textbook,

A Political Economy of the Middle East • .

© 2020 The American University in Cairo Press (E-bog): 9781649030078

Release date

E-bog: 6. oktober 2020