program
Middle East
Governance in the Arab World
The Carnegie Middle East Program has worked for decades to understand tides of reform in the Arab world. While the uprisings of the Arab Spring have overwhelmingly failed to change Arab politics in a sustained manner, the questions of how Arab states govern and how Arab populations experience governance remain. Through our ongoing research, we seek to understand governance as multi-faceted and fundamental to the domestic and foreign policy of Arab states.
Our Projects
Governance Compared: Democracy and Autocracy in the Global South
The Governance Compared project seeks to understand how citizens across the Global South form perceptions of government performance, and, ultimately, whether autocratic regimes are really better at providing for their citizens, as they claim to be.
Democracy at 10
Through this project, Middle East Program Senior Fellow Sarah Yerkes draws lessons from global cases of democratic success and failure to provide recommendations for policymakers and activists on best practices during the critical first years of a transition.