CAIS Public Lecture Series | State Capitalism in the Arab Gulf Monarchies
Lecture/seminar
While scholars have understandably given emphasis to the role of oil and gas revenues in the political economy of the Arab Gulf monarchies — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — especially through rentier state theory (RST) and its variants, an…
A Master Class and Workshop with CAIS HDR Students and ECRs on “Why Political Economy Matters?”
Workshop
In this Master Class, Professor Matthew Gray will explain the importance of Political economy as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that explores the interplay between political power and economic structures and how these relationships shape and are shaped by national and global social and…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Regional Security Complex Theory and the Middle East
Lecture/seminar
This seminar will audit and discuss Barry Buzan and Ole Waever’s regional security complex theory (RSCT) as it relates to the Middle East. RSCT was developed over the 1990s and early 2000s around a central theme of securitization; that states are drawn together into regional or subregional clusters…