Topic:
Responding to the 2014 oil price fall, Gulf rentier states have begun implementing long-overdue fiscal reforms, with some embarking on ambitious economic transition strategies. Yet to what extent do the underlying political, social, developmental, and environmental challenges of rent-dependence remain? How have such shifts been affecting the state-society relationships in these states which are often described as the "social contract"? This workshop aims to re-evaluate core elements of the state-society relationship in the Gulf rentier states, in order to offer a contextualized account of the political economy of development and state legitimacy in the high rent economies in the Gulf, and to generate a revised (or updated) conception of rentierism.
Princeton University Co-Conveners:
Prof. Bernard Haykel (Princeton University)
Dr. Jessie Moritz (Australian National University)
Dr. Makio Yamada (Princeton University)
Participants:
Name |
Affiliation |
Presentation title |
Gail Buttorff | University of Houston | "The Oil Price Crisis: A Setback for Women in Oman?" |
Courtney Freer | London School of Economics | "State Religious Authorities in Rentier Economies and the Management of Independent Islamism" |
Steffen Hertog | London School of Economics | "What Do We Know about the 'Rentier Mentality' 30 Years after The Rentier State?" |
Jim Krane | Rice University | "The Energy Transition's Threat to Oil and Gas Rents and States Reliant on Them" |
Jessie Moritz | Australian National University | "Re-conceptualizing Civil Society in Gulf Rentier States" |
Faris Al-Sulayman | King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies | "State-Business Relations in the Saudi 'Reform Era': Growing Pressures and Divergent Economic Policy Agendas" |
Mark C. Thompson | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | "Nurturing Saudi Youth as a Key Producer of Socio-Economic Progress" |
Makio Yamada | Princeton University | "Rentier Resilience?: A Still Missing Pathway to Production State" |
Karen Young | American Enterprise Institute | "Sovereign Gamble: Changing Roles of Gulf SWFs as Engines of Growth and Political Aspiration" |
Princeton University Listening Participants: Amin Moghadam, Tolga Demiryol, Daniel Tavana