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Steffen Hertog

@shertog.bsky.social

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Political economist with focus on Middle East and political violence, based at LSE

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Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Sep 2

Check out my interview with the indomitable Dahlia Rahaimy of Saudi Times on how the new generation of Saudis is navigating a changing labour market and social contract: sauditimes.org/narratives/c...

Steffen Hertog: The Quiet Reordering of Saudi Society

German economist Steffen Hertog discusses Saudi Arabia’s labour reforms, private sector adaptation, and the unseen shifts redefining work, ambition, and the good life.

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Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social · Mar 27

My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.

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AGSI @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social · Mar 21

Video: The Opportunities and Risks of Industrial Policy in the Gulf with Fuad Hasanov, @shertog.bsky.social, and Tim Callen. agsiw.org/programs/the...

The Opportunities and Risks of Industrial Policy in the Gulf

On March 18, AGSIW hosted a discussion on industrialization in the Gulf.

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Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Mar 13

Correction: The 18 March event on industrial policy in the GCC monarchies will be on Zoom, so no need to be in Washington DC to join Fuad Hasanov, Tim Callen and me for our discussion: tinyurl.com/rwc8n737 (1pm ET)

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Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net · Mar 13

In case you were wondering: Everything you type into ChatGPT is stored forever and can be made public
www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation

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Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Mar 8

If you're in Washington DC on 18 March, consider joining Fuad Hasanov, Tim Callen and me for a discussion about the new era of industrial policy in the GCC monarchies: agsiw.org/programs/the... (1pm at AGSIW, 1050 Connecticut Avenue)

The Opportunities and Risks of Industrial Policy in the Gulf

On March 18, AGSIW will host a discussion on industrialization in the Gulf.

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Faris Al-Sulayman @faris-als.bsky.social · Mar 6

New article out this week with @shertog.bsky.social. We discuss how technology and energy transitions, along with structrural changes in the international system, might provide openings for a new Gulf growth model. Available in Arabic too.
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A New Gulf Growth Model | by Faris Al-Sulayman & Steffen Hertog - Project Syndicate

Faris Al-Sulayman & Steffen Hertog explain why the region’s governments are well positioned to capitalize on recent geo-economic trends.

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Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Mar 3

Do let me know if you'd like a pdf version of the book!

Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Mar 3

Are in Boston on 13 March? If yes, consider coming to my 4:30 pm Harvard's Middle East seminar talk about how divisions between insiders and outsiders hold back Arab economies (for location see below). I'll discuss continuing work building on this 2022 monograph: tinyurl.com/9vr2phhn

Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Dec 14

I also show that most political unrest in the region since 2010 has been rooted in outsider grievances. The GCC “social contract” and the Gulf rentier state are undergoing fundamental change.

Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Dec 14

Outsiders face unemployment or much more precarious and worse paid (non-elite) jobs in the private sector. Drawing on political economy theories of dual labour markets, I tease out the political interests and cleavages resulting from this division.

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Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Dec 14

New paper accepted by Studies in Comparative International Development, just in time for Xmas! I investigate the growing divide in GCC labour markets between “insider” citizens holding a secure public sector job and “outsider” citizens who don't: tinyurl.com/575w4rtz (ungated)

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Hans de Vreij @vreij.bsky.social · Dec 10

Cartoon by Ruben L. Oppenheimer in Dutch newspaper NRC.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Dec 7

Me rereading my own code from 2 months ago:

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Sébastien @daryo.me · Dec 1

La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Nov 30

“thanks so much for the feedback”

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Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Nov 10

New paper by yours truly, Gudrun Østby, Adrian Arellano and Thomas Hegghammer about links between economic deprivation and terrorism & how to better empirically identify them now published in International Studies Review: lnkd.in/e64sw9m4
(non-paywalled preprint available here: lnkd.in/eQkUq2ad)

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Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social · Sep 23

Check out the new (open access) APSR article by Ferdinand Eibl and me about why some oil-rich states build generous welfare states while others become kleptocracies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People? | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People? - Volume 118 Issue 3

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