Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and Global Development, whose research focuses on capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East. 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Federico Fuentes sat down with Hanieh to discuss the state of global imperialism today and the significance of Donald Trump鈥檚 presidency.
Adam Hanieh
In the more than four years since mass uprisings ousted dictatorial regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, it can seem that the initial hopes represented by these mass movements lie in tatters.
Libya, Syria, Yemen and Iraq remain mired in bloody armed conflicts that have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands and displaced millions more within and across borders.
In the pivotal case of Egypt, military rule has returned through the violent crushing of protests, the arrests of an estimated 40,000 people and the rebuilding of the repressive structures of the Hosni Mubarak era.
鈥淥verall, it is important for the Left to support the ongoing struggles in the revolutions [in the Arab world] as the contradictions of the new regimes continue to sharpen,鈥 Adam Hanieh told Farooq Sulehria.
Hanieh is a lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States and a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism.
The current global economic crisis has all the earmarks of an epoch-defining event. Mainstream economists now openly employ phrases like 鈥渟ystemic meltdown鈥 and 鈥減eering into the abyss鈥.