Missions Impossible. John Waterbury

Addresses a gap in higher education scholarship. While there is a growing number of books that look at the financial/economic aspects of higher education, there is very little on the political context of policymaking and on the Arab region as a whole. Author is a world-renowned political economist and president emeritus of the American University of Beirut Waterbury is co-author of the classic textbook, A Political Economy of the Middle East .