Adam Hanieh is a development studies academic based in the United Kingdom. He is Professor in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, a founding member of the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies,[1] and a former member of the Council for British Research in the Levant. He is noted for his research on Marxism, the political economy of the Middle East, labour migration, class and state formation in the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Palestine studies.[2][3][4]

Adam Hanieh
Born
Academic background
Alma materYork University
Academic work
DisciplineDevelopment studies
InstitutionsSOAS, University of London

From 1997 to 2003, Hanieh lived in Palestine, where he completed an MA in Regional Studies at Al Quds University. Hanieh holds a PhD in political science from York University in Canada and previously taught at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates before joining SOAS in London.[2]

Hanieh also leads the New Regionalisms Working Group of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences.[4][5]

His latest book, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2018), was awarded the 2019 International Political Economy Group Book Prize of the British International Studies Association.[6]

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  • Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy.
  • Lineages of Revolt. Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2013. This book is about origins and impact of neoliberal development in the Middle East. Case studies detail the impact of neoliberalism on deregulations, debt & loan policy, working conditions, trade and the institutional reconfiguration of the state since WWII.
  • Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • "The Political Economy of State Formation in Palestine." In Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition, edited by Leila H. Farsakh, 29-53. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.

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  1. ^ "The SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies". Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Adam Hanieh". SOAS, University of London. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Publications of Adam Hanieh". Archived from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  4. ^ a b "الإقليميات الجديدة | المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعية". theacss.org. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Call for Applications: 'Supporting Knowledge and Mapping Regional Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Arab World'". www.theacss.org. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  6. ^ "International Political Economy Working Group 2019 Book Prize lecture - International Political Economy (IPEG) | BISA". www.bisa.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  7. ^ Farsakh, Leila H., ed. (26 October 2021). Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition. University of California Press. doi:10.1525/luminos.113. ISBN 978-0-520-38562-7.
  8. ^ "Updated list of publications of Adam Hanieh". Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2016.