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ABOUT
Dania Thafer is a political scientist with a focus on political economy and international relations. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Her current research explores the effect of state-business relations on economic development in the Arab Gulf states. She has been widely published on matters concerning the Arab Gulf region including several articles, a monograph, and a co-edited book entitled “The Arms Trade, Military Services and the Security Market in the Gulf States: Trends and Implications”. Dania is the Executive Director of Gulf International Forum, a Washington, DC based institute focused on the Gulf region. Previously, she worked at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. Dania has a master’s degree in Political Economy from New York University. She will be graduating Spring 2020 with a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from American University in Washington, DC. Her dissertation is titled "Obstacles for Innovation in Rentier Economies: States, Elites, and the Squandering of the Demographic Dividend".
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
All Time Periods
Comparative
Democratization
Development
Energy Studies
Gulf Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Political Economy
Gender/Women's Studies
Foreign Relations
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Arabian Peninsula
Kuwait
UAE
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Oman
Bahrain
Specialties
State-society Relations In The Arab Gulf States
Geopolitics And Security The Gulf
Political Economy Of The Arab Gulf States
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| Political Science
| American University
MA
| 2012
| Political Science
| New York University
Abstracts
Battlefronts for Reform: The Elusive Quest of Achieving the Demographic Dividend in Rentier Economies
Variation in State Autonomy in GCC Economies: Business Elite Dominance and Asymmetry of Interests for Reform
