Visiting Fellow
Dr Shamel Azmeh is Assistant Professor at the University of Bath. He is currently leading a three-year collaboration project at the Centre with the American University in Cairo entitled 'North Africa’s Deep Integration with the EU: A Path to Upgrading and Diversification or to preserve the Region’s Position in Mediterranean Production Networks'. The project examines the integration of Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia in 'Mediterranean Production Networks' with European partners and explores if the newly-launched EU trade agenda to reach 'deep and comprehensive free trade agreements' (DCFTAs) with North African partners can help these countries upgrade and diversify their economies or if it would lock them in further in low-value added activities with European partners.
Shamel has more than ten years of experience in research, teaching, and policy work on issues related to international political economy, trade, global production networks, and industrial policy with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa region.
Contact Details
Email: c.azmeh@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)7741 962 001
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Research Interests
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Trade policy and global production networks/global value chains
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International trade agreements
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Labour relations and labour chapters in international trade agreements
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The economies of the Middle East and North Africa
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Industrial policy
Selected Publications
'Syria’s Passage to Uprising and Conflict: The End of the “Rentier Fix” and the Consolidation of a New Elite Rule', Politics and Society (forthcoming).
'Transient global value chains and preferential trade agreements: rules of origin in US trade agreements with Jordan and Egypt', Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (2015).
'Labour in global production networks: workers in the qualifying industrial zones (QIZs) of Egypt and Jordan', Global Networks 14/4 (2014), pp. 495–513.
'Trade regimes and global production networks: the case of the qualifying industrial zones (QIZs) in Egypt and Jordan', Geoforum 54 (2014), pp. 57–66.
With Khalid Nadvi, '‘Greater Chinese’global production networks in the Middle East: the rise of the Jordanian garment industry', Development and Change 44/6 (2013), pp. 1317–1340.