Dr Adam Hanieh

I am Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at IAIS, University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

My current research focuses on oil and capitalism, energy transitions, and the political economy of the Middle East. To date, I have published five books (four single authored and one co-edited) the most recent of which is Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books 2024). My third book, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and was awarded the 2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize.

Prior to joining the University of Exeter, I was a Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. I taught at SOAS for 10 years, where I was a founding member of the Centre for Palestine Studies and active in the London Middle East Institute. I also served as co-chair of the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies between 2018 and 2020. I am a member of the Board of Directors of MERIP, the Middle East and Research Information Project, based in Washington D.C., and a Research Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI).

Biography:

I hold a PhD in Political Science from York University, Toronto, Canada; an MA in Regional Studies from Al Quds University, Palestine; and a BSc from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Research supervision:

I am happy to supervise or co-supervise students working on my research interests (see above). Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a proposed topic.