2020 PEP Book Prize Winner to be Announced at MESA 2021
Political Economy Project (PEP) will be announcing the 2020 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize winner at Middle East Studies Association’s 55th annual meeting. This year's MESA will take place virtually November 29-December 3, 2021. Click here for more details and to register.
Call for Submissions:
2020 Book Prize Competition
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The Political Economy Project (PEP) is pleased to invite nominations for our 2020 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. PEP aims to recognize and disseminate exceptional critical work on the political economy of the Middle East. While the book must have a political economy theme, we welcome nominations from across academic disciplines. Submissions will be read and judged by a committee drawn from PEP’s membership. Eligible texts must have been published in 2019 and can be either Arabic or English language. The book must make an original contribution to critical political economy research. The author(s) of the winning book will receive a prize of US$1000 and will be invited to give a talk at a PEP affiliated University. The author(s) will also be interviewed by the Arab Studies Institute’s Audio Magazine, Status/الوضع. The deadline for submission is 30 June 2020. If you intend to participate, please notify us at: bookprize@politicaleconomyproject.org. To be considered, you must send an electronic copy of the book to bookprize@politicaleconomyproject.org or two hard copies of the text to the address below. One copy will be returned once the committee has reached a decision. Arab Studies Institute 4260 Chain Bridge Rd, Suite A6 Fairfax VA 22030 politicaleconomyproject.org |
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Previous PEP Book Prize Honorees
The Political Economy Project (PEP) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. With this prize, PEP aims to recognize and disseminate exceptional critical work on the political economy of the Middle East.
Kevan Harris's A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (University of California Press)
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For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution, Kevan Harris convincingly demonstrates how they are wrong. Previous studies ignore the forceful consequences of three decades of social change following the 1979 revolution. Today, more people in the country are connected to welfare and social policy institutions than to any other form of state organization. In fact, much of Iran’s current political turbulence is the result of the success of these social welfare programs, which have created newly educated and mobilized social classes advocating for change. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Iran, Harris shows how the revolutionary regime endured through the expansion of health, education, and aid programs that have both embedded the state in everyday life and empowered its challengers. This focus on the social policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran opens a new line of inquiry into the study of welfare states in countries where they are often overlooked or ignored.
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Announcing the 2019 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize Winner and Honorable Mention
The Political Economy Project (PEP) is pleased to announce the results of the 2019 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize competition. With this prize, PEP aims to recognize and disseminate exceptional critical work on the political economy of the Middle East. This year marks the fourth annual award, and the selection committee reviewed nearly twenty nominations for a range of books dealing with political economy—representing a diversity of disciplines, topics, and geographic focus. The selection committee was particular impressed with two books in particular and consequently felt the need to recognize an honorable mention award.
The 2019 selection committee recognizes the following authors for their original contributions to critical political economy research:
The Political Economy Project (PEP) is pleased to announce the results of the 2019 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize competition. With this prize, PEP aims to recognize and disseminate exceptional critical work on the political economy of the Middle East. This year marks the fourth annual award, and the selection committee reviewed nearly twenty nominations for a range of books dealing with political economy—representing a diversity of disciplines, topics, and geographic focus. The selection committee was particular impressed with two books in particular and consequently felt the need to recognize an honorable mention award.
The 2019 selection committee recognizes the following authors for their original contributions to critical political economy research:
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Winner
Adam Hanieh’s Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (Cambridge University Press) 
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Honorable Mention
Begüm Adalet’s Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey (Stanford University Press) 
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