Dr. Adam Hanieh Zoom Lecture this Friday 12/5 at 10AM ET/ 9AM CT
Owen Harrington
Hi EESG folks-- BIG REMINDER
This Friday at 10AM ET/9AM CT come see Dr. Adam Hanieh's lecture: "Greening the Gulf? Renewables, Fossil Capitalism, and the 'East-East' Axis of World Energy"! This is not to be missed. Talk description and bio below.
Register here: uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/...
Description: Drawing upon his recent book Crude Capitalism (Verso 2024), Adam Hanieh explores the growing role of the six Gulf Arab states (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman) in solar, wind, and other climate technologies that underpin dominant approaches to the 'Green Transition'. He situates this in the Gulf's ongoing fossil fuel production, as well as the emergence of a new 'East-East' energy circuit that links the Middle East and China/East Asia, encompassing fossil fuels, petrochemicals, and renewables. This East-East energy axis is creating deepening interdependencies between capital accumulation in the Middle East and East Asia, and carries crucial implications for the possible future trajectories of the climate emergency.
Bio: Adam Hanieh is currently Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK) and in February 2026 will be moving to SOAS, University of London, to take up a new role as Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute. He is also a Research Fellow at the Transnational Institute and sits on the Board of Directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP). Hanieh is the author of four books, including Money, Markets, and Monarchies (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which won the 2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize. His most recent book Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market came out with Verso Books in 2024 and was co-winner of the 2025 Best Book by an International Scholar, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association.