Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

In Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World (American University in Cairo Press), John Waterbury ’61 engages with international debates and analysis of higher education in the Arab world, seeking to probe the connections between higher education, economic growth, and the survival of regimes, and suggesting that educational innovation and knowledge could be the key for achieving leaders’ goals for their countries.