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Laundering Carbon—The Gulf's ‘New Scramble for Africa'

Adam Hanieh — 2024-08-12T05:57:00Z

In early November 2023, shortly before the COP28 summit opened in Dubai, a hitherto obscure UAE firm attracted significant media attention around news of their prospective land deals in Africa

- IV595 - August 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Africa

A Marxist Guide to Understanding the Gulf States' Political Economy

Adam Hanieh — 2020-08-05T09:36:24Z

Western analysts often regard the Gulf as a strange anomaly among capitalist states. In fact, it has the same underlying dynamics as capitalist countries elsewhere, and it is powerfully shaping the politics of the Middle East.

For an analysis of the state of the Gulf's political economy, Hamza Culin spoke with Adam Hanieh. His most recent book, Money, Markets, and Monarchies, examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Here, he discusses the specific nature of Gulf capital, its role in regional and global markets, and its future in a post-COVID-19 world.

- IV547 - August 2020 / Marxism, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Economy, Saudi Arabia

When Oil Markets Go Viral

Adam Hanieh — 2020-04-29T07:43:25Z

The Covid-19 crisis has lead to a huge drop in the demand for, and price of, oil globally. In this article, Adam Hanieh looks at what this might mean for the global economy.

- IV543 - April 2020 / Economy, Covid-19 Pandemic

This is a Global Pandemic – Let's Treat it as Such

Adam Hanieh — 2020-03-31T14:32:26Z

In the face of the COVID-19 tsunami, our lives are changing in ways that were inconceivable just a few short weeks ago. Not since the 2008-2009 economic collapse has the world collectively shared an experience of this kind: a single, rapidly-mutating, global crisis, structuring the rhythm of our daily lives within a complex calculus of risk and competing probabilities.

- IV542 - March 2020 / Covid-19 Pandemic

Money, Markets, and Monarchies

Adam Hanieh — 2019-02-02T18:39:39Z

Adam Hanieh talks about his new book to Jadaliyya.

- Reviews section / Saudi Arabia, Reviews, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

One question: Class struggle today

2018-12-03T22:58:20Z

One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.

This month we ask:

What does class struggle mean today?

- Features / Marxism

The Qatar Crisis

Adam Hanieh — 2017-07-17T08:21:09Z

The Saudi Arabia–UAE battle against Qatar is a struggle for regional power with no heroes to cheer for.

- IV510 - July 2017 / Saudi Arabia, Qatar

A Brief History of ISIS

Adam Hanieh — 2015-12-23T14:48:32Z

In the wake of the November 13 attacks in Paris, much of the Left has linked the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to the deepening imperialist violence in the Middle East.

- IV491 - December 2015 / Syria, Iraq, Religion, Arab Revolutions

Fundamental rifts: power, wealth and inequality in the Arab world

Adam Hanieh — 2015-04-15T11:10:16Z

Over four years since mass uprisings ousted sclerotic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt it can seem that the initial hopes represented by these movements lie in tatters. Libya, Syria, Yemen and Iraq remain mired in bloody armed conflicts that have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands and displaced millions more within and across borders. In the pivotal case of Egypt, military rule has returned through the violent crushing of protests, the arrests of an estimated 40,000 people and the rebuilding of the repressive structures of the Mubarak era. Elsewhere, autocratic governments look more secure in their rule today than they have for many years.

- IV483 - April 2015 / Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Arab Revolutions, Yemen

The revolution continues

Adam Hanieh — 2012-08-22T14:53:05Z

Eighteen months after mass protests and strikes ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak from power, the basic aspirations that drove Egypt's uprising remain largely unfulfilled writes Adam Hanieh in an article written before Morsi's removal of Tantawi. The vast majority of the population has seen little substantive improvement in living conditions. Political decision-making continues to be dominated by a military junta closely tied to the United States. Many of the old Mubarak apparatchiks remain firmly ensconced in positions of influence, and few have seen their ill-gotten wealth or decades of corruption challenged. Even where new political forces have entered the state structures – as has been the case following recent parliamentary and presidential elections – most appear eager to reconcile with prominent individuals and practices associated with the old regime.

- IV451 - August 2012 / MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Egypt