name: Stephen Juan King
birth_date: 1961-01-01 00:00:00
genres: Politics
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about: Stephen J. King, Ph.D. (Politics, Princeton University), is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa from a comparativist perspective. He is associated with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Program in African Studies in Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, and was a Fellow of the Wilson Center, 2022–23.In the publications stemming from his field work, Professor King challenges the generally accepted proposition that economic liberalization necessarily leads to political liberalization, particularly in dominant party states and in the Middle East and North African region in general. Stephen J. King, Ph.D. (Politics, Princeton University), is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa from a comparativist perspective. He is associated with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Program in African Studies in Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, and was a Fellow of the Wilson Center, 2022–23.In the publications stemming from his field work, Professor King challenges the generally accepted proposition that economic liberalization necessarily leads to political liberalization, particularly in dominant party states and in the Middle East and North African region in general. ...more