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The Consequences of Contrasting Endowments, Ideologies, and Investment Policies in Saudi Arabia and Syria

This book is my Ph.D. research, conducted between 2002 and 2005 at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Experiments… aims to quantify and analyze how two water scarce but ideologically different Middle Eastern political economies, Saudi Arabia and Syria, addressed water sector investment between 1980 and 2000. The study examines how narrow-coalitions of decision-makers obsessed by impossible-to-achieve food self-sufficiency goals, lacking environmental consideration, and safe political processes led to unsustainable water policies and massive waste of their scarce natural resources.