Adam Hanieh
I am Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at IAIS, University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Area Studies (Middle East) with the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Prior to joining the University of Exeter, I was a Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London.
My research focuses on the political economy of the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. I am interested in the place of the Gulf states within global capitalism; as well as the ways in which capital accumulation in the Gulf impacts wider issues of development in the Middle East, including inequality, poverty, and social polarisation. I think that the Middle East is too often absent within the general critical political economy literature, and am convinced that the study of the region can usefully inform wider global debates around class, race, migration, finance, and imperialism.
I have published three books that explore different aspects of the Middle East region. My most recent book, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2018) won the 2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize. I am currently completing a book on oil and capitalism that will be published by Verso in 2024.
I sit on the editorial board for the UK’s Political Studies Association flagship journal, Politics, and have been a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal Studies in Political Economy since 2015. I am also a member of the Board of Directors of MERIP, the Middle East and Research Information Project, based in Washington D.C., and am currently convening the ‘New Regionalisms’ Working Group at the Arab Council for Social Sciences in Beirut.
Adam Hanieh
I am Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at IAIS, University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Area Studies (Middle East) with the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Prior to joining the University of Exeter, I was a Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London.
My research focuses on the political economy of the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. I am interested in the place of the Gulf states within global capitalism; as well as the ways in which capital accumulation in the Gulf impacts wider issues of development in the Middle East, including inequality, poverty, and social polarisation. I think that the Middle East is too often absent within the general critical political economy literature, and am convinced that the study of the region can usefully inform wider global debates around class, race, migration, finance, and imperialism.
I have published three books that explore different aspects of the Middle East region. My most recent book, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2018) won the 2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize. I am currently completing a book on oil and capitalism that will be published by Verso in 2024.
I sit on the editorial board for the UK’s Political Studies Association flagship journal, Politics, and have been a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal Studies in Political Economy since 2015. I am also a member of the Board of Directors of MERIP, the Middle East and Research Information Project, based in Washington D.C., and am currently convening the ‘New Regionalisms’ Working Group at the Arab Council for Social Sciences in Beirut.