Jill Crystal
Professor
Ph.D. Program Director
Jill Crystal, Professor and Associate Director of the PhD program, received her PhD from Harvard University. She specializes in comparative politics with an emphasis on Middle Eastern politics. She is the author of two books on the Gulf: Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar and Kuwait: The Transformation of an Oil State. Her research interests include Gulf politics, authoritarianism and democratization, and police and law. She teaches a variety of courses (undergraduate and graduate) on Middle Eastern politics and on comparative politics and public policy.
Interest Areas
- Middle Eastern Politics
- International Political Economy
Representative Publications
- "Kuwait" (chapter 11), The Middle East (Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 2007)
- "Eastern Arabian States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Oman," in Mark Gasiorowski, David Long and Bernard Reich, eds., Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (Westview Press: 2007), 5th edition, pp. 153-196.
- "Political Reform and the Prospects for Democratic Transition in the Gulf," Fundacion para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Externior (FRIDE), Working Paper #11, July 2005.
- "Women in Qatar," (New York: Freedom House), Survey of Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (2005).
- Hesham Nasr, Jill Crystal, and Nathan J. Brown, "Criminal Justice and Prosecution in the Arab World" United Nations Development Program on Governance in the Arab Region, 2005.
- "Public Order and Authority: Policing Kuwait" in James Piscatori and Paul Dresch, eds., Monarchies and Nations: Globalisation and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf (I.B. Tauris: 2005).
- "Qatar," Countries at the Crossroads (New York: Freedom House, 2004).
- F. Gregory Gause III and Jill Crystal, "The Arab Gulf: Will Autocracy Define the Social Contract in 2015?" in Judith Yaphe, ed., The Middle East in 2015: the Impact of Regional Trends on U.S. Strategic Planning (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2002): 163-193.
- "The Saudi Legal System," in Herbert Kritzer, ed., Legal Systems of the World: a Political Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002).
- "Criminal Justice in the Middle East" Journal of Criminal Justice, 29:6 (November/December 2001).
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