GCC Hydrocarbon Economies and COVID Old Trends, New Realities

The book considers the impact of COVID-19 on the GCC member states through the prism of challenges faced by their hydrocarbon sector. Yet, the publication’s discourse is not solely focused on the problems experienced by the oil and gas industries of the GCC member states after the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Instead, the contributors will analyze how these challenges and subsequent response to them affected other aspects of the GCC socio-economic and political development, from direct impact of the COVID on the energy sector of the GCC to socio-economic consequences of the oil market crisis for the region and its potential fallouts for the international relations of the Gulf. 

Nikolay Kozhanov is a Research Associate Professor at the Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University. He is also a Non-Resident Scholar at the Program on Economics and Energy at the Middle East Institute. His research interests are focused on the geopolitics of the Gulf hydrocarbons, Russian foreign policy in the Middle East as well as Iran’s economy and international relations.

Karen E. Young is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Economics and Energy at the Middle East Institute. She was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), focused on the political economy of the Middle East and states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. She regularly teaches at the Foreign Service Institute at the US Department of State, and has taught at George Washington University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 

Jalal Qanas is an assistant professor in the College of Business and Economics at Qatar University. During 2013-2017, he was Teaching Assistant in Economics for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. He also taught a summer course in the Economics of Brexit at Oxford University. Before joining Qatar University, Jalal was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of West London. Qanas’ research interests are mainly in macroeconomic policies, monetary economics, central banking and political economy of the Persian Gulf.