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Saudi Arabia: From Defense to Offense but How to Score?

Karen Elliott House
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 12 Noon
102 Jones Hall


Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East

Eckart Woertz
Senior researcher at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

Tuesday, October 8, 2013
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall


In the Shadow of the Syrian War: Sectarianism in the Arab Gulf States

Frederic Wehrey
Senior Associate in the
Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Tuesday, October 1, 2013
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall


Offshore Citizenship: A Market Solution to the "Problem" of Migrant Incorporation

Noora Anwar Lori
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Harvard University

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall


Arab Businesses and the Revolution

Giacomo Luciani
Princeton Global Scholar and The Transregional Institute

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:30 PM
100 Jones Hall


Expat/Expert Camps: Toward a New Ethnography of Gulf Labor Migration

Neha Vora
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Lafayette College

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall


Resource Blessed: the GCC Development Experience

Giacomo Luciani
Princeton Global Scholar and the Transregional Institute

Tuesday, April 9, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall


On Autocracy and the Transition Towards Democracy in the Arab Region

Samir Makdisi
Professor Emeritus, American University of Beirut

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
4:30 PM
100 Jones Hall


Talk Therapy - Yemen, the National Dialogue and Prospects for Transition

Barbara Bodine
Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, WWS
Director, Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall


Military Monolith or Subcontractor State? The Politics of Privatization in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Kevan Harris
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall


Rightsizing America's Role in the Middle East

Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer
S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Tuesday, November 6, 2012
12:00 Noon
202 Jones Hall


The Gulf States' Response to the Arab Spring Uprisings

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
Columnist from the United Arab Emirates

Monday, November 5, 2012
12:00 Noon
102 Jones Hall


Of Empires and Citizens: Pro American Democracy or No Democracy at All?

Amaney Jamal
Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Workshop on Arab Political Development at Princeton University

Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:00
202 Jones Hall


The Arab Spring and the New Arab Public Sphere

Marc Lynch
Associate Professor of political science and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University

Tuesday, October 9, 2012
12:00
202 Jones Hall


The Struggle for Syria Revisited

April 25, 2012, 12:00
102 Jones Hall

Carol Hakim
Visiting Associate Research Scholar
Princeton University


Political Economy of Arab Revolutions: Analysis and Prospects for North-African Countries

April 18, 2012, Noon
102 Jones Hall

Elias Mouhoub Mouhoud
Professor of Economics
Université Paris Dauphine


Will Economics Derail the Arab Spring: the Case of Tunisia

April 17, 2012, 12:00 p.m.
Jones 102

Francis Ghilès
Senior Research Fellow
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs


The Redirection of Saudi Aramco's Investment Strategy and Its Global Implications

April 12, 2012, 12:00
102 Jones Hall

Giacomo Luciani
Princeton Global Scholar


The Military and the Arab Springs

March 29, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
Jones 100

Robert Springborg
Department of National Security Affairs
Naval Postgraduate School


Economic Challenges Facing Egypt’s New Order

March 28, 2012, 12:00 p.m.
102 Jones Hall

Robert Springborg
Department of National Security Affairs
Naval Postgraduate School


Sudan after the Secession of the South: Missing Petrodollars and the Quest for an “Agricultural Renaissance"

March 14, 2012, 12:00 noon
Jones 102

Eckart Woertz
The Transregional Institute & Princeton Environmental Institute


Seminar on "Whither the Arab State?"

January 11-13, 2012

Al-Ghat, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

co-sponsored with the Abdulrahman Al-Sudairy Foundation

Participants: Paul Salem, Gregory Gause, Nathan Brown, Asli Bali, Samer Shehata, Lisa Anderson, Abdulkhaleq Abdallah, Joshua Landis, Saud al-Sarhan, Marina Ottaway, Abdulwahid Humaid, Stephen Walt, Lama Al Sulaiman, Ziad Al-Sudairy, Bernard Haykel


Workshop on "Weak Dollar, Expensive Oil"

December 4, 2011

Participants: Muhammad Al Jasser, Governor of Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, Giacomo Luciani, Princeton Global Scholar, Ed Morse, Citi, Harold James, and others


Workshop on the Arab Spring Revolutions

November 18-19, 2011

Participants: Olivier Roy, Amaney Jamal, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Teije Donker, Virginie Collombier, Sari Hanafi, Marwa Daoudy, Rabab El Mahdi, Ellen Lust, Carol Hakim, Bernard Haykel


The Hidden Hand of US Hegemony: From Petrodollars to Sinodollars

Thursday, October 20, 2011 -- 202 Jones Hall

David Spiro, The Strategy Practice


Do Global Shale Liquids Spell a Threat for Middle East Oil Dominance?

Thursday, October 4, 2011 -- 100 Jones Hall, 4:30 PM

Assif Gangat, PIRA


Running Out of Food in the Middle East? Food Security and the Challenges of the Arab Spring

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 -- 100 Jones Hall, 4:30 PM

Turki Faisal Al Rasheed

Chairman, Golden Grass, Saudi Arabia


The Arab Spring and the Rentier State Paradigm at 25

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 -- 202 Jones Hall, 12:00 Noon

Professor Giacomo Luciani, Princeton Global Scholar Director,

Gulf Research Center Foundation


Oil, the Dollar and the Stability of the International Financial System

Tuesday, April 26, 2011-- 102 Jones Hall, 12:00 Noon

Eckart Woertz, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Princeton Environmental institute and the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies