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about the programme
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welcome
The Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States
The Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States is a ten year multidisciplinary global programme. It focuses on topics such as globalisation, economic development, diversification of and challenges facing resource rich economies, trade relations between the Gulf States and major trading partners, energy trading, security and migration.
The Programme generally focuses on the states that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. However, occasionally the interests of research require a more flexible and broader conception.
The Programme is hosted by LSE?s interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Governance, and led by Professor David Held, co-director of the Centre. It supports post-doctoral researchers and PhD students, develops academic networks between LSE and Gulf institutions, and hosts public lectures, a regular seminar series as well as five major biennial conferences. The first conference on the theme of ?Globalisation and the Gulf? took place in Kuwait City in March 2009. The next conference will take place in March 2011 and focus of ?The Transformation of the Gulf States: Economy, Culture and Society?.
The Programme commissions cutting edge research papers from academics and experts on the Gulf States, a number of which will inform a collected volume provisionally titled ?Transformation of the Gulf? set to be published in 2010/11.
The Programme is funded by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. LSE Director Howard Davies notes: 'We are very grateful to the Kuwait Foundation for this generous pledge. It is an opportunity for the School, our staff and students to broaden and deepen knowledge about Kuwait and the Gulf States.'
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"Dubai a wake-up call"
'Investors will subject Gulf states to far greater scrutiny following Dubai World’s debt shock, highlighting more than ever the need for increased transparency and better corporate governance in the region’s finance industry', argues Kristian Ulrichsen in his op-ed in The Gulf
Human Security in Basra
The LSEKP is sponsoring a research project on implementing Human Security in Basra. The research will be carried out by Mary Kaldor and Yahia Said
Read Mary Kaldor's report on visiting Basra on opendemocracy.net
podcasts
The podcasts of the Kuwait biennial conference "Globalisation and the Gulf: Economics and Security" are now online
available
link to
Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences
contact
Ian Sinclair
Administrator for the Programme
Centre for the Study of Global Governance
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
phone: 020 7955 6639
email: i.sinclair@lse.ac.uk
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