Ibrahim Shikaki is assistant professor of economics at Trinity College, CT. He earned his PhD from the New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York, and held teaching positions at NSSR, The International University College of Turin, Birzeit and Al-Quds Universities. He also held research positions at the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) in Ramallah and Diakonia’s IHL Research Center in East Jerusalem. His recent work includes a chapter on the political economy of dependency and class formation in Palestine, and an article in Foreign Policy on the dangers of economic peace. Ibrahim is a member of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE), and the Association of American University Professors (AAUP).