Faculty

Henry, Clement
Professor

Office: BAT 4.152
Phone: 512-232-7210
chenry@mail.utexas.edu
Webpage

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Research interests:
Professor Henry specializes in the Middle East and North Africa, where he has conducted research on political parties, the engineering profession, and financial institutions. While working on research grants and teaching assignment, he has lived over 12 years in Algiers, Beirut, Cairo and Rabat. He supplemented his Harvard Ph.D. degree in political science with a M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, where he taught from 1973 to 1980. He continues to be interested in the development of civil society in the countries he studies, and he seeks in the tradition of classic political economy to relate financial as well as economic variables to political development. His courses are online at www.la.utexas.edu/chenry.

Field(s) of Study: Comparative Politics; Political Economy

Recent Publications:
He has written five books, including, most recently, Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2001), with Robert Springborg, and The Mediterranean Debt Crescent: Money and Power in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (University of Florida, 1996); co-authored or co-edited  six  others, including The Politics of Islamic Finance (Edinburgh University Press, 2004), Oil in the New World Order (University of Florida, 1995) and Maghreb et Maitrise Technologique (CERP, 1995); and contributed over three dozen articles to other books and journals, including the American Political Science Review .