Lecture and discussion with Adam Hanieh

Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, the Middle East has faced deepening inequality, renewed authoritarianism, and mass displacement. Adam Hanieh situates the Gulf monarchies’ oil-fuelled rise within shifting oil-cantered global capitalism and US–China rivalries, showing how great-power competition reshapes but fails to transform enduring regional domination.

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025, 6 to 8 pm  online via MS Teams

Adam Hanieh is Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Adam Hanieh is author of  Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso 2024).

This talk is part of the online lecture series Emancipatory Perspectives in a Multipolar World Full of Tensions organized by the University of Salzburg.