Professor Adam Hanieh Delivers Lecture at the University of Cambridge

On 30 January 2024, Professor Adam Hanieh delivered a lecture titled “The ‘East-East’ Hydrocarbon Circuit: Rethinking Middle East Oil and the World Market” at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge. Around forty students, academics, and visiting scholars from different faculties attended the lecture, which was followed by a reception.

Hosted by the Centre for Development Studies, the talk drew on Hanieh’s research as part of the Mapping Connections project. Arguing for the need for greater attention within the climate justice movement on the international role of Gulf-based National Oil Companies, Hanieh traced the deepening links between China and the Gulf in the sectors of oil and petrochemicals.

Development Studies at Cambridge has a history datable at least to the 1930s, when some of those who were later to be the founding fathers in the field studied there as graduate students under John Maynard Keynes. The Centre of Development Studies was formally established in January 2012 as an independent centre within the Department of POLIS. It has close links with the Centre of Latin American Studies, the Centre of South Asian Studies, and the Centre of African Studies.  

Story and Photographs by Jie Wang