Globalisation and the Gulf: economics and security
Kuwait Programme biennial conference, Kuwait City, 25-26 March 2009
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The London School of Economics and Political Science Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States in association with the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences is pleased to announce an international conference entitled 'Globalisation and the Gulf: Economy and Security.'
The objective of this conference is to explore how the processes of globalisation are simultaneously shaping, and being shaped by, economic and security trends in the Gulf states. Among the topics for consideration are the emergence of new forms of international political economy, shifts in the global economics of energy consumption, and the rise of sovereign wealth funds as well as their implications for existing mechanisms of global governance.
In an interconnected world of instant communications, large-scale capital and labour flows and new global insecurities which transcend national boundaries, the conference will also examine how new forms of conflict and insecurity might impact on the Gulf states and an international community reliant on a stable flow of oil and gas from the region.
The conference will bring together a distinguished collection of senior public figures, academics and post-graduate students from the Gulf and the broader international community to discuss these issues in an interdisciplinary forum.
It will be held at the headquarters of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science in Kuwait City and aims to make an important contribution to the academic discourse on globalisation and the Gulf states.