Oil and Political Economy in the Middle East: Overcoming Rentierism?

State-Society Relations & Institutional Channels of Economic Reform in the GCC, Online Event Organisation: Gulf International Forum Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Vortragende:r), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

At a talk at the workshop "State-Society Relations & Institutional Channels of Economic Reform in the GCC" on 9 November 2021 Martin Beck and Thomas Richter discussed a paper which looks at key trajectories of adjustment in the Arab Gulf since 2014.

Organisation: Middle East Institute, Washington Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

Thomas Richter launched his book "Oil and the Political Economy in the Middle East" at an event of the Middle East Institute in Washington on 26 October 2021. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Middle Eastern political economy in response to the 2014 oil price decline with timely contributions on the Covid-19 induced price crash in 2020.

28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DVPW, Online Event Organisation: Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Vortragende:r), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

Die Energiewende trifft die arabischen Golfstaaten ins Mark – struktureller Wandel jedoch vollzieht sich zögerlich, selektiv und politisch aufgeladen. Die Kluft zwischen struktureller Reform und autoritärer Machtstabilisierung ist weiterhin groß und könnte zukünftig weiter ansteigen.

Economic Change and the Future of the Middle East, Aarhus University, Aarhus Organisation: Aarhus University Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

Thomas Richter gave the keynote speech at the anniversary conference at Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Organisation: EconomiX Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Vortragende:r), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

Book talk about the volume Beck, Martin, and Thomas Richter, eds. 2021. Oil and Political Economy in the Middle East: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies of the Arab Gulf and Beyond. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Raw Materials, the Global South, and Development in the 21st Century, Golden Tulip Kassel / hybrid event, Kassel Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Vortragende:r), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

This paper looks at key trajectories of policy adjustment across member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)—a region shaped by state-controlled income from exporting hydrocarbons—since 2014, the year in which the price of crude oil dropped significantly.

Seit Sommer 2014 reißt der Verfall der Weltölpreise tiefe Löcher in die Haushalte der Mitglieder des Golfkooperationsrates. Neben der ­Privatisierung von Staatsunternehmen planen dessen Regierungen deswegen zum ersten Mal seit ihrer Staatsgründung auch die Einführung von Steuern. Für Anfang 2018 ist…

Trotz massiver Produktionsausfälle durch die Angriffe auf saudi-arabische Ölförderanlagen am 14. September 2019 blieb der Ölpreis stabil. Dies verdeutlicht zweierlei: Eine Rückkehr zum Preisniveau von über 100 USD ist sehr unwahrscheinlich, und die ölexportierenden arabischen Golfstaaten stehen…

That hydrocarbon abundance may lead to more violence is an established truism in the literature on the resource curse. Lookingat the Middle East, however, the literature relates bellicose state behaviour entirely to oil-producing revolutionary republics.Instead, dynastic monarchies are claimed to be…

State-Society Relations & Institutional Channels of Economic Reform in the GCC, Online Event Organisation: Gulf International Forum Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Vortragende:r), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

At a talk at the workshop "State-Society Relations & Institutional Channels of Economic Reform in the GCC" on 9 November 2021 Martin Beck and Thomas Richter discussed a paper which looks at key trajectories of adjustment in the Arab Gulf since 2014.

Organisation: Middle East Institute, Washington Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

Thomas Richter launched his book "Oil and the Political Economy in the Middle East" at an event of the Middle East Institute in Washington on 26 October 2021. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Middle Eastern political economy in response to the 2014 oil price decline with timely contributions on the Covid-19 induced price crash in 2020.

28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DVPW, Online Event Organisation: Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Vortragende:r), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)