Paul Rivlin presented a paper on “Israel and Jordan: Lessons from their Development, 1950-2006” at the The Brenthurst Program-Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Conference on Globalisation and Economic Development Success: Policy Options for Africa, convened in Cairo in November 2006. His publications included “Iran’s Energy Vulnerability,” published in the Middle East Review of International Affairs, December 2006, and a chapter on “Globalization, High Tech and Socio-economic Inequality,” published in The Middle East and Globalization (Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). He reviewed M. Riad el-Ghonemy’s Egypt in the Twenty-First Century in the Winter 2007 issue of Middle East Journal. In June 2007, he lectured on economic and military aspects of Arab technology at TAU’s Defense Studies Program Seminar on Science, Technology and Security. Rivlin briefed several foreign visitors during the year, including: Sadashi Fukuda, Director General and Jun Saito Researcher, IDE-Jetro, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan; Liu Jian, Chief Editor and Liu Tong, Senior Editor, The Economic Observer, Beijing; Shintaro Yoshimura, of the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, and Byoung-Jin Han, First Secretary, Korean Embassy, Israel.

email: privlin@post.tau.ac.il