Book Launch – Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East
Speakers: Adam Hanieh (SOAS), Laleh Khalili (SOAS), and Sara Salem (LSE)
Tuesday 19th February, 5:45pm-7pm
Khalili Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Russell Square
In Money, Markets, and Monarchies (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Adam Hanieh examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Through unprecedented and fine-grained empirical research – encompassing sectors such as agribusiness, real estate, finance, retail, telecommunications, and urban utilities – the book lays out the pivotal role of the Gulf in the affairs of other Arab states, and asks what this might mean for the future of the region. This vital feature of the Middle East’s political economy is essential to understanding contemporary regional dynamics, not least of which is the emergence of significant internal tensions within the Gulf itself. The author will be joined in discussion with Laleh Khalili and Sara Salem to launch this book.
*Copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night*
Chair: Lori Allen (SOAS)
Organiser: London Middle East Institute
Further Details: https://bit.ly/2IjWS1B
