Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the University of Exeter, whose research focuses on capitalism and…

This is an extract from Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market by Adam Hanieh, now available from Verso Books. A…

The Covid-19 crisis has lead to a huge drop in the demand for, and price of, oil globally

As with all so-called ‘humanitarian’ crises, it is essential to remember that the social conditions found across most of the countries of the South are the direct product of how these states are inserted into the hierarchies of the world market

What are the social and political roots of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?

Any reversal of neoliberalism in the Middle East would require challenging powerful Gulf States

Eighteen months after mass protests and strikes ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak from power, the basic aspirations that drove Egypt’s uprising remain largely…

As part of our series of material related to the most recent edition of the Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – New Left…

The current global economic crisis has all the earmarks of an epoch-defining event. Mainstream economists – not usually known for their exaggerated…

Neoliberalism, the ‘New Middle East’ and Palestine In the late 1960s, with the definitive collapse of British and French colonialism in…