Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

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Professor Adam Hanieh

Professor of Political Economy and Global Development

A.Hanieh@exeter.ac.uk

Overview

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

My research focuses on the political economy of the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. My work examines the role 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 particularly interested in how the study of the Middle East might inform wider theoretical debates around class and state formation, race, migration, finance, and imperialism.

To date, I have published four books (three single authored and one co-edited) 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, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and was awarded the 2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize and the 2019 Political Economy Book Prize of the Arab Studies Institute.

Many of my research interests are informed by living and working in the Middle East, including Palestine and the UAE. 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 am currently convening the ‘New Regionalisms’ Working Group at the Arab Council for Social Sciences in Beirut.

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Research

I work on issues of critical political economy, with a particular focus on the following themes:

  • Class and State Formation
  • Neoliberalism, Finance, and Development
  • Race, Labour, and Migration
  • Oil and Capitalism

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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.

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Publications

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2023

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2020

  • Hanieh A. (2020) Rethinking Class and State in the Gulf Cooperation Council, A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa.
  • Hanieh A. (2020) COVID-19 and global oil markets, Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, volume 42, no. 1-2, pages 101-108, DOI:10.1080/02255189.2020.1821614. [PDF]
  • Hanieh A. (2020) 'Capital, Labor, and State: Rethinking the Political Economy of Oil in the Gulf, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History.
  • Hanieh A. (2020) Stone, Labor, and the Building of Israel, Journal of Palestine Studies, volume 49, no. 2, pages 80-86, DOI:10.1525/jps.2020.49.2.80. [PDF]
  • Hanieh A. (2020) Development as Struggle: Confronting the Reality of Power in Palestine, Journal of Palestine Studies, volume 45, no. 4, pages 32-47, DOI:10.1525/jps.2016.45.4.32. [PDF]

2019

2018

  • Hanieh A. (2018) The Contradictions of Global Migration, Socialist Register.
  • Hanieh A. (2018) Money, Markets, and Monarchies The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East, Cambridge University Press.

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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.

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