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http://www.cla.temple.edu/politicalscience/faculty/sean-l-yom/ * http://www.fpri.org/contributor/sean-yom/ * http://www.mei.edu/profile/sean-yom
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Yom, Sean L.
Found in: From resilience to revolution, 2015: ECIP t.p. (Sean L.
Yom) data view (assistant professor of political science
at Temple University; Senior Fellow at the Foreign
Policy Research Institute's Program on the Middle East)
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EDUCATION:Brown University, A.B., 2003; Harvard University, Ph.D., 2009.
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Educator and writer. Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Hewlett Fellow, 2009-10; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, associate professor of political science.
AWARDS:GIGA Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Award, 2016.
WRITINGS
Has contributed chapters to books, including Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, edited by Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2014. Has published articles in periodicals, including Journal of Democracy, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Political Studies, Government and Opposition, Middle East Journal, and Arab Studies Quarterly.
SIDELIGHTS
Sean L. Yom is associate professor of political science at Temple University and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East. He earned an A.B. degree at Brown University and a Ph.D. at Harvard, and he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. His research interests focus on authoritarian governments and international policy, and he has studied political economy and political reforms in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region, with particular attention to security and the promotion of democracy in this part of the world. He has published on these topics and on postcolonial nation building. His articles have appeared in periodicals, among them the Journal of Democracy, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Political Studies, Government and Opposition, Middle East Journal, and Arab Studies Quarterly. He has also contributed chapters to books, including Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World. Yom has worked with various organizations in the public sector and the international arena, including the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy.
With Mark Gasiorowski, Yom edited The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. A reviewer at Internet Bookwatch praised the updated volume, now in its eighth edition, for its expanded and updated coverage of the region, “revised to reflect the latest and ongoing changes in politics.” The critic observed that the book is a “must” for any college library that holds a collection on this region.
In his first monograph, From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East, Yom examines the evolution of the governments of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait in the context of foreign interventions and choices of coalition partners. In the postcolonial world, especially after World War II, Middle Eastern dictators worked to establish their rule; some succeeded, while others failed. Yom looks closely at the influence of foreign powers on this process, which often discouraged stability and fostered repression. Those governments that acted on their own, without foreign geopolitical influence, were able to build wider coalitions of internal support. Writing in Choice, S.R. Silverburg “highly recommended” the book, calling it a “richly theoretical analysis, elegantly written and supported by the most recent comparative political literature.”
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Choice, June, 2016, S.R. Silverburg, review of From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East, p. 1542.
Internet Bookwatch, December, 2016, review of The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Foreign Policy Research Institute Web site, http://www.fpri.org/ (April 21, 2017), author profile.
Middle East Institute Web site, http://www.mei.edu/ (April 21, 2017), author profile.
Temple University Web site, http://www.cla.temple.edu/ (April 21, 2017), author profile.
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Keywords
Comparative, Middle East, Democracy, Authoritarianism, Development
Biography
Sean L. Yom is Associate Professor of Political Science. His research broadly focuses on authoritarianism, democracy, and development in the Middle East and North Africa. He as published widely on post-colonial state formation, the dynamics of regime durability, and strategic implications for US foreign policy. He travels frequently to the Arab world, especially Morocco and Jordan. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard.
Selected Publications
From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015).
Co-editor (with Mark Gasiorowski), The Government and Politics of the Middle East (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2016), 8th ed.
“Understanding the Arab Spring: One Region, Several Puzzles, and Many Explanations,” Government and Opposition, Vol. 50, No. 4 (October 2015), pp. 682-704.
“The New Landscape of Jordanian Politics: Social Opposition, Fiscal Crisis, and the Arab Spring,” British Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Spring 2015), pp. 284-300.
“From Methodology to Practice: Inductive Iteration in Comparative Research,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 48, No. 5 (April 2015), pp. 616-644.
“Tribal Politics in Contemporary Jordan: The Case of the Hirak Movement,” The Middle East Journal, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 229-247.
“Authoritarian Monarchies as an Epistemic Community: Diffusion, Repression, and Survival during the Arab Spring,” Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Summer 2014), pp. 43-62.
“Jordan: The Ruse of Reform,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 24, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 127-139. Reprinted in Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, eds. Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 351-363.
“Resilient Royals: How Arab Monarchies Hang On,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 23: No. 3 (October 2012), pp. 74-88. (with secondary author, F. Gregory Gause) Reprinted in Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, eds. Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 112-127.
“Oil, Coalitions, and Regime Durability: The Origins and Persistence of Popular Rentierism in Kuwait,” Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 46: No. 2 (June 2011), pp. 217-241.
“Jordan: Ten More Years of Autocracy,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 20: No. 4 (October 2009), pp. 151-166.
“The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Regime Stability: Jordan in the Post-Cold War Era” (with Mohammad al-Momani), Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30: No. 1 (Winter 2007-8), pp. 39-60.
“Civil Society and Democratization: Critical Views from the Middle East,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 9: No. 4 (Winter 2005), pp. 14-33.
Courses Taught
PS1201/1901 (Foreign Governments)
PS3241 (Middle East Politics)
Various undergraduate capstone and honors seminars
PS8240 (Democracy, Autocracy, and Regime Change)
PS8201 (Comparative Core)
Senior Fellow - Program on the Middle East
Sean L. Yom, a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science (Comparative Politics) at Temple University. His research broadly focuses on authoritarianism and development, and he is now finishing his first book on state-building and political order in the post-colonial Middle East. His other current research interests concern the future of democratic reforms in the Arab world, patterns of transnational hierarchy between sovereign states, and contemporary methods of comparative-historical analysis. At Temple, he teaches courses on Middle East politics, comparative political regimes, and democracy in the modern world. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard (2009) and thereafter completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford.
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Research Interests
Authoritarianism and democratization; Middle East politics; state-building and late development
Bio
Sean Yom finished his Ph.D. at the Department of Government at Harvard University in June 2009, with a dissertation entitled "Iron Fists in Silk Gloves: Building Political Regimes in the Middle East." His primary research explores the origins and durability of authoritarian regimes in this region. His work contends that initial social conflicts driven by strategic Western interventions shaped the social coalitions constructed by autocratic incumbents to consolidate power in the mid-twentieth century--early choices that ultimately shaped the institutional carapaces and political fates of these governments. While at CDDRL, he will revise the dissertation in preparation for book publication, with a focus on expanding the theory to cover other post-colonial regions and states. His other research interests encompass contemporary political reforms in the Arab world, the historical architecture of Persian Gulf security, and US democracy promotion in the Middle East. Recent publications include articles in the Journal of Democracy, Middle East Report, Arab Studies Quarterly, and Arab Studies Journal.
Sean Yom Temple University
Sean L. Yom is assistant professor of political science at Temple University. His research broadly focuses on the dynamics of authoritarian regimes and the political economy of development in the Middle East region. His first book, From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2015) explores how geopolitical pressures transformed pathways of Middle East state-building in the post-WWII era. His other work has appeared in Journal of Democracy, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Political Studies, Government and Opposition, The Middle East Journal, and Arab Studies Quarterly, among other journals. In addition to the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, he has also worked closely with other public-sector institutions and international organizations in evaluating the pace of democratic reforms and the role of US foreign policy in the Arab world, with a particular emphasis on Jordan, Kuwait, and Morocco. A.B., Brown (2003); Ph.D., Harvard (2009).
Forum Publications
“Resilient Royal: How Arab Monarchies Hang On,” co-authored with F. Gregory Gause, III, Journal of Democracy (Oct. 2012)
“Jordan: Ten More Years of Autocracy,” Journal of Democracy (Oct. 2009)
GIGA CAS Award 2016
Sean Yom Wins GIGA Prize for Comparative Area Studies
Political scientist Sean Yom has developed an innovative research approach for comparative area studies. The GIGA has granted him an award in recognition of this work.
André Bank (CAS Awards Coordinator), awardee Sean Yom, and Patrick Köllner (Director of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies) © Frank Eberhard
Prof. Sean Yom of Temple University in Philadelphia has won the GIGA Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Award for 2016. Today’s awards ceremony, held at the GIGA, honoured his innovative “inductive iteration” approach, which was presented last year in the article “From Methodology to Practice: Inductive Iteration in Comparative Research“ in the journal Comparative Political Studies. This approach makes it possible to repeatedly question, test, and adapt scientific hypotheses and methods over the course of a research process.
“In his article, Sean Yom demonstrates possibilities for avoiding the ‘deductive template’ that shapes a significant portion of American, and increasingly also European, political science,” said the jury in its explanation of its decision. “The article is convincing due to its conceptual strength, its innovative power, and its clear argumentation.”
An international jury made up of Rudra Sil (University of Pennsylvania), Scott Gates (Peace Research Institute Oslo), and Andreas Mehler (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute Freiburg) selected the winning article from approximately 30 submissions.
Through the GIGA CAS Award, the GIGA promotes the development of this young and innovative research field. The EUR 2,500 prize is awarded every two years.
Sean Yom is assistant professor of political science at Temple University in Philadelphia. His primary research interests are authoritarian regimes and international policy, with a focus on the Middle East and the Gulf region.
The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, eighth edition
(Dec. 2016):
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 Midwest Book Review
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The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, eighth edition
Mark Gasiorowski and Sean L. Yom, Editors
Westview Press
c/o Perseus Book Group
250 W. 57th St., Suite 1500, New York, NY 10107
www.westviewpress.com
9780813349947, $52.00, www.amazon.com
The eighth updated edition of The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa has been completely revised to reflect the latest and ongoing changes in politics and government in the region, which makes this a 'must' for any college-level collection strong in the area's history. Among the many features of this update are a newly expanded introduction, incorporation of political changes, and a blend of historical background with discussion of regional changes that are supplemented by extensive bibliographic references, black and white maps, and detailed discussions contributed by experts. No college-level history and political science collection strong in the Middle East or Africa should be without this latest survey.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, eighth edition." The Bookwatch, Dec. 2016. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA475278014&it=r&asid=bb143f8263f02ac826d9042c9a39708a. Accessed 9 Apr. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A475278014
Yom, Sean L.: From resilience to revolution: how foreign interventions destabilize the Middle East
S.R. Silverburg
53.10 (June 2016): p1542.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 American Library Association CHOICE
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Yom, Sean L. From resilience to revolution: how foreign interventions destabilize the Middle East. Columbia, 2016. 294p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231175647 cloth, $55.00; ISBN 9780231540278 ebook, $54.99
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In this richly theoretical analysis, elegantly written and supported by the most recent comparative political literature, political scientist Yom (Temple Univ.) attacks the question of what determines the durability of regimes in the Middle East, given the rash of revolutionary activity following the Arab Spring. The author's approach is to use the case study method, looking at Kuwait, Iran, and Jordan. He studies the theories of institutions, coalition strategies, and authoritarianism to set the pattern of why some regimes are more durable than others. The primary perspective presented is that domestic conflict and geopolitical mediation (external actor intervention) have developed into a regular pattern in current Middle Eastern politics. Yom concludes with a political lesson for foreign powers' foreign policies to avoid intervening in the domestic affairs of Middle Eastern states that are undergoing stress in their domestic political situations. This is a compelling study not just for Middle Eastern studies but also for comparative politics in general. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.--S. R. Silverburg, Catawba College
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Silverburg, S.R. "Yom, Sean L.: From resilience to revolution: how foreign interventions destabilize the Middle East." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, June 2016, p. 1542. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA454942988&it=r&asid=2ddfad3a708300eaa2c880044b798a86. Accessed 9 Apr. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A454942988
The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, eighth edition
(Dec. 2016):
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 Midwest Book Review
http://www.midwestbookreview.com
The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, eighth edition
Mark Gasiorowski and Sean L. Yom, Editors
Westview Press
c/o Perseus Book Group
250 W. 57th St., Suite 1500, New York, NY 10107
www.westviewpress.com
9780813349947, $52.00, www.amazon.com
The eighth updated edition of The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa has been completely revised to reflect the latest and ongoing changes in politics and government in the region, which makes this a 'must' for any college-level collection strong in the area's history. Among the many features of this update are a newly expanded introduction, incorporation of political changes, and a blend of historical background with discussion of regional changes that are supplemented by extensive bibliographic references, black and white maps, and detailed discussions contributed by experts. No college-level history and political science collection strong in the Middle East or Africa should be without this latest survey.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, eighth edition." Internet Bookwatch, Dec. 2016. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA475278137&it=r&asid=9eab3288871e6c655554cfef1729f1de. Accessed 9 Apr. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A475278137