Diederik (Dirk) Vandewalle teaches in the Government Department and at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is the former chair of Dartmouth's Asian and Middle Eastern Studies program. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1988: since then, his research and teaching focus on comparative economic development in emerging economies and economic reform in the Arab Gulf states, North Africa, and Asia. He is editor of several books and edited volumes on Libya (A History of Modern Libya) and North Africa, and is writing a manuscript on the economic emergence and prospects of the Arab Gulf countries, based on research from a Fulbright Regional Research Award in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. He has written numerous articles on economic development issues in the Arab world and received, in addition to two regional Fulbright research awards, a Social Science Research Council Award for advanced research in Morocco and Yemen. He is on the editorial board of several scholarly publications and lectures and consults widely in policy, business, and academic settings in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. He also regularly appears on national and international media outlets, including PBS, NPR, Al Jazeera, and CNN. DIEDERIK VANDEWALLE Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, USA.