Kuwait Programme - Public seminars

LSE Kuwait Programme and LSE Cities public seminar

3 November 2016

Oil and the transformation of urban life in Kuwait

Speaker: Dr Farah Al-Nakib, American University of Kuwait Respondent: Philipp Rode, LSE Cities

22 September 2016

Politics after Islamism: the changing rhetoric of conservatism in the Gulf

Speaker: Ahmed Dailami, Independent Researcher

17 November 2015

GCC intervention in Yemen: a pathway to peace and security?

Speaker: Michael Stephens, RUSI

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6 October 2015

Britain’s inelegant exit from Aden in 1967 and its long-term impact on the Gulf region

Speaker: Dennis Sammut, LINKS

22 May 2014 

Oman's foreign policy under Sultan Qaboos: independent, but to what extent?

Speaker: Dr Marc Valeri, University of Exeter

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15 May 2014

The macroeconomics of the Gulf

Speaker: Raphael Espinoza, IMF

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5 March 2014

Diversified but marginal: the GCC private sector as an economic and political force

Speaker: Dr Steffen Hertog, LSE

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26 February 2014

Qatari foreign policy and the changing regional order in the Middle East

Speaker: Dr Lina Khatib, Carnegie Middle East Centre

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27 November 2013

Iranian foreign policy after the election of Hassan Rouhani

Speaker: Professor Anoush Ehteshami,  Durham University

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20 November 2013

The strategic significance of changing trade patterns between Asia and the Gulf

Speaker: Tim Niblock, Emeritus Professor of Middle East politics, University of Exeter

23 October 2013

UAE foreign policy before and after the Arab Spring

Speaker: Khalid Almezaini, Assistant Professor, Gulf Studies Program & International Studies Department, University of Qatar and author of The UAE and Foreign Policy: Foreign Aid, Identity, and Interests (Routledge, 2011).

15 May 2013

The Gulf states and the Arab Uprisings: popular protests, counter-revolution, and the sectarian Gulf

Speaker: Toby Matthiesen, Research Officer, LSE Kuwait Programme

22 March 2013

Kuwait: the politics of crisis

Speaker: Ghanim Al-Najjar, Professor of Political Science, Kuwait University

13 February 2013

The GCC's fiscal cliff

Speaker: Rachel Ziemba, Director of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa and global macroeconomics, Roubini Global Economics

23 January 2013

The evolving role of parliaments and ruling strategies in Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman

Speaker: Greg Power, Director, Global Partners and Associates. Visiting Fellow, Centre for Legislative Studies, University of Hull

5 December 2012

Nation-building, migration and the ‘export of Wahhabism’: a Saudi missionary project in transnational perspective

Speaker: Michael Farquhar, PhD student, Government Department, LSE

22 November 2012

Getting out? Obama’s exit strategy and the Gulf

Speaker: Nicholas Kitchen, Research Officer, Kuwait Programme, LSE

10 October 2012

Stability versus sustainability: the Gulf monarchs' energy dilemma

Speaker: Jim Krane, PhD candidate at Cambridge University, longtime Mideast journalist and author of the book Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City

16 May 2012

Religion, ideology, and strategic calculation: the Arab Gulf monarchies and the Arab-Israeli conflict

Speaker: Rene Rieger, PhD Candidate in Middle East Politics, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter and Lecturer in International Relations, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

25 April 2012

Sunni identity and sectarian relations in post-civil war Iraq

Speaker: Fanar Haddad, Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London

21 March 2012

Social media, surveillance & identity in the Bahrain Uprising

Speaker: Marc Owen Jones, PhD student, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University

5 March 2012

Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring

Speaker: F. Gregory Gause, Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont

15 February 2011

Basra, Southern Iraq and the Gulf: challenges and connections

Speaker: Dr Kristian Ulrichsen, LSE Kuwait Programme

25 January 2012

Foreign aid in the Middle East: identities, morals and interests

Speaker: Khalid Almezaini, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Cambridge

16 November 2011

Gulf-Asia relations in the age of diversifications

Speaker: Makio Yamada, PhD in International Relations, University of Oxford

2 November 2011

The shrivelling state: water scarcity and state fragility in Yemen

Speaker: Scott Moore, DPhil Candidate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

19 October 2011

Anatomy of an oil-based welfare state: rent distribution in Kuwait

Speaker: Laura El-Katiri, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and School of Oriental and African Studies

11 May 2011

Political turmoil in the gulf

Speaker: Dr Christopher Davidson, Reader in Middle East Politics, Durham University

16 March 2011

Being the Other in 21st century Saudi Arabia: Shia identity politics, nationalism and Saudi paranoia about Iran

Speaker: Toby Matthiesen, PhD candidate, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS

16 February 2011 

Desertec, Masdar and beyond: renewable energy policy in the Maghreb and in the Gulf region

Speaker: Dennis Kumetat. LSE Kuwait Programme PhD Scholar; LSE Department of Geography and Environment

8 December 2010

Explaining Qatar's schizophrenic foreign policy

Speaker: David Roberts, PhD student, Durham University

10 November 2010

Is Bahrain's political reform era over?

Speaker: Jane Kinninmont, Chatham House

13 October 2010

Rapid globalization versus places of cultural value: a look into the malls and suq of Manama, Bahrain

Speaker: Sheyma Buali, Freelance writer and independent researcher

26 May 2010

The international political economy of sovereign wealth funds

Speaker: Hans Trees, LSE PhD Research Student

9 March 2010

The Gulf, aid and the Arab world's fragile states

Speaker: Habiba Hamid, LSE Kuwait Programme short-term research fellow

17 February 2010

The internationalization of jihadist terrorism

Speaker: Guido Steinberg, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

27 January 2010

Greening for self-conservation? Climate change and Gulf monarchies

Speaker: Mari Luomi, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

13 January 2010

Nationalism in the Gulf states

Speaker: Neil Partrick, American University of Sharjeh, UAE

2 December 2009

Security and strategic trends in the Middle East

Speaker: Anoush Ehteshami, Dean of Internationalisation and Professor of International Relations, Durham University

11 November 2009

Foreign relations on the razor's edge: Dubai's ties to Israel, America and Iran

Speaker: Jim Krane, author of City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism

14 October 2009

Gender and participation in the Arab Gulf

Speaker: Wanda Krause, School of Oriental and African Studies

28 May 2009

Reinventing government in the Middle East: lessons from the UAE

Speaker: Lawrence Groo, Executive Director of Musanada

13 May 2009

The evolution of Gulf security

Speaker: Kristian Ulrichsen, Deputy Director, LSE Kuwait Programme

18 March 2009

The resilience of Iraqi nationalism

Speaker: Johan Franzen, School of Oriental and African Studies

18 February 2009

State-business relations and economic diversification policies in Bahrain and Oman

Speaker: Marc Valeri, University of Exeter

11 December 2008

Sustainable development and state capacity in the Gulf

Speaker: Steffen Hertog, LSE

25 November 2008

Emerging sovreign investors and the global financial crisis: coming to the rescue or creating new risks

Speakers: Sven Behrendt, Carnegie Middle East Centre, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Alastair Newton, Managing Director and Senior Political Analyst at Nomura International plc.(pictured) Ibraim Saif, Carnegie Middle East Centre.

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12 November 2008

Abu Dhabi: how does it work?

Speaker: Christopher Davidson, University of Durham

15 October 2008

Reform of market governance: independent regulatory agencies in the Gulf

Speaker: Mark Thatcher, LSE