De-orientalising the scholarship on the Arab Gulf states is crucial, argues Dawud Ansari. Commentaries and datasets generalise them as ‘monarchies’, erasing vital differences between these countries. New terms are a starting point for transforming research on the wider region – an urgent objective given new crises and freshened global interest
Researcher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) / Director, Energy Access and Development Program (EADP)
Dawud’s interdisciplinary research covers energy and resource economics, development policy, geopolitics, and conflict and authoritarianism with a focus on the Middle East.
He holds a PhD in resource economics from Humboldt University of Berlin after having previously studied at the Berlin Institute of Technology and the Johns Hopkins University.
Dawud is also a senior lecturer and independent consultant.
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