Erin A. Snider
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Book: 

Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2022

Selected Articles and Working Papers:


"Containing Change: The Politics of Transitional Aid in Egypt after the Arab Uprisings," Globalizations. Special issue on IPE and the Middle East. March 2023

"US Democracy Aid and the Authoritarian State: Evidence from Egypt and Morocco,"  International Studies Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 4, December 2018

“International Political Economy and the Middle East,”  PS: Political Science and Politics, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2017

The Arab Spring: US Democracy Promotion in Egypt, Middle East Policy, Fall 2011, Vol XVIII, No. 3, pp 49-62  (with David Faris, Roosevelt University)

The Ethics of International Aid for Democracy

Ideational Capture and American Foreign Policy in Egypt (with David Faris)

Engineering Transition: The New Political Economy of Aid and Security in the Middle East

The Politics of Economic Change in Sisi's Egypt  


Other Writing

​"Democracy Aid in the Middle East," APSA Comparative Democratization Newsletter 14 (3), Symposium on Democracy Aid in Challenging Contexts, October 2016.

Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Conversation Series: The Political Economy of Foreign Aid in the Middle East, April 2016

"States, Markets, and Power: International Political Economy and the new Middle East", August 2015, Memo for Workshop on "International Relations and a New Middle East" organized by GWU's Project on Middle East Political Science and Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Review of Sheila Carapico, Political Aid and Arab Activism: Democracy Promotion, Justice, and Representation (Cambridge University Press 2014), Middle East Journal (Winter 2015).