Oil and the Rentier State in the Middle East

Speaker | 22/09/2018

Geostrategies and the Resource Curse in the Gulf: Cracks in the Regional System Post-Arab Uprisings

Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark Odense: 22/09/2018

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker, Speaker, Speaker | 28/09/2018

Patronage, Verteilungskoalitionen und fiskalische Anpassung: Ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher autoritärer Regimetype

German Political Science Association Osnabrück: 28/09/2018

Dr. Thomas Richter

Ferdinand Eibl

Dr. Viola Lucas

Organiser, Organiser | 14/03/2019 - 15/03/2019

Challenged by the Decreased Price of Oil: Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond since 2014

Cooperation Event Beirut: 14/03/2019 - 15/03/2019 Organisers: Lebanese Oil and Gas Initiative, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Workshop of the Research Platform Middle East "Challenged by the Decreased Price of Oil: Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond since 2014"

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Speaker, Speaker | 13/10/2022

State, Class, and Autonomy in Hydrocarbon Societies: A Revival

Conference 13/10/2022

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

University of Kurdistan Hewlêr

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Deutsche Welle | Quote | 17/10/2018

مصالح الاقتصادية تكبل الأوروبيين في قضية خاشقجي!

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Deutsche Welle | Quote | 03/12/2018

Katars OPEC-Abschied: ein vielschichtiges Signal

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Deutsche Welle | Expert Comment / Guest Contribution | 22/12/2015

Saudi-Arabien auf der Suche nach seiner Zukunft

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Al Ittihad | Quote | 12/04/2018

تحديات المنطقة: الطاقة والتحالفات الإقليمية

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Deutsche Welle | Quote | 03/12/2018

Qatar's OPEC exit rooted in Gulf region's diplomatic unrest

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Schwäbische Zeitung | Quote | 21/09/2019

Warum der Khashoggi-Mord kein Thema mehr ist

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Magazin Zenith | Quote | 19/06/2019

Hafen Duqm im Oman. Hier baut Oman an seiner Zukunft

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Research & Politics | 2016

State Hydrocarbon Rents, Authoritarian Survival and the Onset of Democracy: Evidence from a New Dataset

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Edited Volume | Manchester University Press | 08/2021

Oil and the Political Economy in the Middle East: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies of the Arab Gulf and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 08/2021

Pressured by the Decreased Price of Oil: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Energy Research and Social Science | 09/2022

Whither Rentierism Following the 2014 Oil Price Decline: Trajectories of Policy Adjustment in the Arab Gulf

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.

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Naher Osten | 12/2016

Entwicklung und Struktur der Wirtschaft

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Naher Osten | 12/2016

Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Golfkooperationsrat (GCC)

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Euro-Asian Studies | 2012

The Rentier State: Relevance, Scope and Explanatory Power of a Four-Decades-Old Paradigm

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Focus Middle East | 3/2017

Structural Reform in the Arab Gulf States – Limited Influence of the G20

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 08/2021

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

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Demokratie und Entwicklung | LIT Verlag | 2004

Determinanten einer Wirtschaftspolitik für Kleinst-, Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KKMU) in Ägypten: Ein Beitrag zur Politikfeldanalyse in neo-patrimonialen Semi-Rentierstaaten

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Weltregionen im Wandel | 2007

Herrschaft, Rente und Außenhandelsreformen: Zur Leistungsfähigkeit einer Typologie von Staatlichkeit im arabischen Vorderen Orient

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 2010

Rente, Rentierstaat und die Distribution materieller Ressourcen in Autokratien

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Working Papers | 01/2011

Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Director of the GIGA Institute for African Affairs / Editor GIGA Focus Africa

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Focus Middle East | 6/2019

From Abundance to Scarcity: Oil Revenues of the Arab Gulf States Under Pressure

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Global Policy | 02/2020

New Petro-Aggression in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia in the Spotlight

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker, Speaker | 09/11/2021

Whither Rentierism: Trajectories of Adjustment in the Arab Gulf after the Era of Oil Income Abundance

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.

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker | 26/10/2021

Book Launch | Oil and the Political Economy in the Middle East

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.

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker, Speaker | 16/09/2021

Vom Überfluss zur Knappheit: Rentierstaatlichkeit im arabischen Golf

Conference 16/09/2021

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Panelist, Panelist | 31/08/2012

APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2012

Conference 31/08/2012

Improving Autocracy Research: New Typologies, New Indicators, New Methods = New Insights?. 2012 Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association

PD Dr. habil. Steffen Kailitz

Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung e.V.

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Organiser, Organiser | 24/09/2013

Deutscher Orientalistentag

Conference 24/09/2013

The Rentier State Approach and the Arab. Panel auf dem 32. Deutschen Orientalistentag

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Aarhus University

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker, Speaker | 05/06/2015

Spending versus Taxation in Petro-Autocracies: Exploring Mechanisms of Mass-Cooptation

Workshop 05/06/2015

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Speaker | 24/09/2015

Krisen und die Verwundbarkeit der Staatsbudgets in den Golfmonarchien

Conference 24/09/2015

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Consultant | 14/10/2015

Five years later! Conflict progressions and consequences of the Arab Spring in the Near and Middle East

Panel discussion 14/10/2015

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker | 13/11/2015

Geo-Strategic Dimensions and the Resource Curse of the Middle East

Cooperation Event Byblos: 12/11/2015 - 13/11/2015 Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker | 15/12/2017

GSRE 1.0 – Global State Revenues and Expenditures Dataset: An Introduction

Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Universität Bremen Bremen: 15/12/2017

Research Seminar

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker, Speaker | 03/10/2019

Adjustment Policies in (Semi-)Rentier States: A Comparative View on the Middle East Since 2014

Conference 03/10/2019

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Aarhus University

Speaker | 27/03/2017

Policies of Producing States in Light of Oil Variables

Conference 27/03/2017

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker, Speaker | 04/11/2017

Krise und Strukturwandel in den arabischen Golfstaaten

GIGA Event GIGA Hamburg, Hamburg: 04/11/2017 Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Dr. Jens Heibach

Research Fellow

Speaker | 06/04/2018

Do Different Autocracies Spend Differently? Patronage, Distributional Coalition Size, and Adjustment Trajectories

Conference 06/04/2018

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker | 22/09/2018

Geostrategies and the Resource Curse in the Gulf: Cracks in the Regional System Post-Arab Uprisings

Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark Odense: 22/09/2018

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker, Speaker, Speaker | 28/09/2018

Patronage, Verteilungskoalitionen und fiskalische Anpassung: Ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher autoritärer Regimetype

German Political Science Association Osnabrück: 28/09/2018

Dr. Thomas Richter

Ferdinand Eibl

Dr. Viola Lucas

Organiser, Organiser | 14/03/2019 - 15/03/2019

Challenged by the Decreased Price of Oil: Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond since 2014

Cooperation Event Beirut: 14/03/2019 - 15/03/2019 Organisers: Lebanese Oil and Gas Initiative, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Workshop of the Research Platform Middle East "Challenged by the Decreased Price of Oil: Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond since 2014"

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Speaker, Speaker | 13/10/2022

State, Class, and Autonomy in Hydrocarbon Societies: A Revival

Conference 13/10/2022

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

University of Kurdistan Hewlêr

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Deutsche Welle | Quote | 17/10/2018

مصالح الاقتصادية تكبل الأوروبيين في قضية خاشقجي!

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Deutsche Welle | Quote | 03/12/2018

Katars OPEC-Abschied: ein vielschichtiges Signal

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Deutsche Welle | Expert Comment / Guest Contribution | 22/12/2015

Saudi-Arabien auf der Suche nach seiner Zukunft

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Al Ittihad | Quote | 12/04/2018

تحديات المنطقة: الطاقة والتحالفات الإقليمية

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Deutsche Welle | Quote | 03/12/2018

Qatar's OPEC exit rooted in Gulf region's diplomatic unrest

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Schwäbische Zeitung | Quote | 21/09/2019

Warum der Khashoggi-Mord kein Thema mehr ist

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Magazin Zenith | Quote | 19/06/2019

Hafen Duqm im Oman. Hier baut Oman an seiner Zukunft

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Research & Politics | 2016

State Hydrocarbon Rents, Authoritarian Survival and the Onset of Democracy: Evidence from a New Dataset

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Edited Volume | Manchester University Press | 08/2021

Oil and the Political Economy in the Middle East: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies of the Arab Gulf and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 08/2021

Pressured by the Decreased Price of Oil: Post-2014 Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Energy Research and Social Science | 09/2022

Whither Rentierism Following the 2014 Oil Price Decline: Trajectories of Policy Adjustment in the Arab Gulf

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.

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Naher Osten | 12/2016

Entwicklung und Struktur der Wirtschaft

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Naher Osten | 12/2016

Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Golfkooperationsrat (GCC)

Dr. Viola Lucas

Former Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Euro-Asian Studies | 2012

The Rentier State: Relevance, Scope and Explanatory Power of a Four-Decades-Old Paradigm

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Focus Middle East | 3/2017

Structural Reform in the Arab Gulf States – Limited Influence of the G20

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 08/2021

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

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Demokratie und Entwicklung | LIT Verlag | 2004

Determinanten einer Wirtschaftspolitik für Kleinst-, Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KKMU) in Ägypten: Ein Beitrag zur Politikfeldanalyse in neo-patrimonialen Semi-Rentierstaaten

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Weltregionen im Wandel | 2007

Herrschaft, Rente und Außenhandelsreformen: Zur Leistungsfähigkeit einer Typologie von Staatlichkeit im arabischen Vorderen Orient

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Chapter in Edited Volume | 2010

Rente, Rentierstaat und die Distribution materieller Ressourcen in Autokratien

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Working Papers | 01/2011

Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Director of the GIGA Institute for African Affairs / Editor GIGA Focus Africa

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

GIGA Focus Middle East | 6/2019

From Abundance to Scarcity: Oil Revenues of the Arab Gulf States Under Pressure

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Global Policy | 02/2020

New Petro-Aggression in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia in the Spotlight

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker, Speaker | 09/11/2021

Whither Rentierism: Trajectories of Adjustment in the Arab Gulf after the Era of Oil Income Abundance

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.

Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Associate

Dr. Thomas Richter

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"

Speaker | 26/10/2021

Book Launch | Oil and the Political Economy in the Middle East

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.

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