Vincentian Center for Church and
Society
presents
The Politics and Economics of Social Upheaval in the Middle East
and North Africa
Monday March 21, 2011
1:30 - 3 p.m.
Bent Hall, Room 101B
Panel Discussion:
Protest in the Middle East and North
Africa and the End of Arab Exceptionalism
Azzedine Layachi, Ph.D.
Professor
Government and Politics
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Economics Behind Uprisings, Past and
Present
Charles M.A. Clark, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Economics and Finance
The
Peter J. Tobin College of Business
Institutional Responses to Recent
Social Upheavals: Is Democracy a Likely Outcome?
Moderator:Robert Pecorella, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Government and Politics
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
For more information or to register: Call the Vincentian
Center for Church and Society at: (718)
990-1612 or vccs@stjohns.edu