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

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

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.

Organiser: Middle East Institute, Washington Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

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 Organisers: German Political Science Association Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

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 Organisers: Aarhus University Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

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

Organiser: EconomiX Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

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 (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

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.

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

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.

Organiser: Middle East Institute, Washington Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)

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 Organisers: German Political Science Association Prof. Dr. Martin Beck (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)