Fouad Makki
Assistant Professor
Research Focus
I am currently engaged in two overlapping research projects. The first is a comparative study of national development trajectories in Northeast Africa in the context of divergent colonial pasts and the post-World War II international political and economic order. The second seeks to examine the complex coping and adaptive mechanisms of local societies in the semi-arid regions of Eritrea – from crop and herd diversification to careful exploitation of ecological niches – and how these are being undermined by the State’s drive to fix agro-pastoral communities in particular places, and to pursue a development strategy centered on intensive mechanized agriculture.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., 2005, Binghamton University
Selected Publications
PubMed Listings
- "The Empire of Capital and the Remaking of Center-Periphery Relations. " Third World Quarterly, Volume 25, no. 1. 2004
- "The Aporias of Nationalism: Political Culture, Ideology and Democracy, " in Hartmut Quehl (ed.) Living in Wartimes, Living in Postwar Times (Felsberg, Germany: Edition Eins, 2002). 2002
