Hertog, Steffen
Dr Steffen Hertog
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Experience keywords:
political economy; terrorism; Middle East politics; Gulf politics; comparative politics of the developing world
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Steffen Hertog has been researching the comparative political economy of the Gulf and Middle East for more than a decade, working with a number of local and international institutions. His expertise includes labour market regulation, support policies for small and medium enterprises, reform of public companies as well as regional development. His book about the politics of the Saudi bureaucracy, "Princes, Brokers and Bureaucrats: Oil and State in Saudi Arabia", based on two years of field research in the Saudi kingdom, has been published by Cornell University Press in 2010. He has a subsidiary research interest in political violence and is currently finishing a book manuscript, co-authored with Diego Gambetta, about why there are so many engineers among Islamic radicals worldwide.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Banking; Energy; Environment; Financial Services; Policy and Regulatory Bodies; Public Administration
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Saudi Arabia; Gulf monarchies; Middle East
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Languages: Arabic [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]; German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]
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Media experience:
Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Luciani, Giacomo and Valeri, Marc and Hertog, Steffen, (eds.) (2013) Business politics in the Middle East. Hurst, London, UK. ISBN 9781849042352 Hertog, Steffen, (ed.) (2012) National employment, migration and education in the GCC. Gerlach Press, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 9783940924001 Hertog, Steffen (2011) Princes, brokers and bureaucrats: oil and the state in Saudi Arabia. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. ISBN 9780801477515 Hertog, Steffen (2011) The costs of counter-revolution in the GCC. Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, LLC Hertog, Steffen (2011) The evolution of rent recycling during two booms in the Gulf: business dynamism and societal stagnation. In: Legrenzi, Matteo and Momani, Bessma, (eds.) Shifting geo-economic power of the Gulf: oil, finance and institutions. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 55-74. ISBN 9781409426707 Hertog, Steffen (2010) Lean and mean: the new breed of state-owned enterprises in the Gulf monarchies. In: Seznec, Jean-Francois and Kirk, Mimi, (eds.) Industrialization in the Gulf: a socioeconomic revolution. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415780353 Hertog, Steffen (2010) Benchmarking SME policies in the GCC: a survey of challenges and opportunities. Eurochambres, Brussels, Belgium Hertog, Steffen and Luciani, Giacomo (2009) Energy and sustainability policies in the GCC. Research papers, 6. Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Hertog, Steffen (2009) A rentier social contract: the Saudi political economy since 1979. In: The kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1979-2009: evolution of a pivotal state. Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA. Hertog, Steffen and Gambetta, Diego (2009) Tinker, tailor, engineer, jihadi: can university subjects reveal terrorists in the making. New scientist, 202 (2712). pp. 26-27. ISSN 0262-4079 Hertog, Steffen (2009) Saudi Arabia’s political demobilization in regional comparison: monarchical tortoise and republican hares. In: Guazzone, Laura and Pioppi, Daniela, (eds.) The Arab state and neo-liberal globalization: the restructuring of state power in the Middle East. Ithaca Press, London, UK. ISBN 9780863723391 Hertog, Steffen (2009) The GCC economies and the crash: short-term weaknesses, long-term strengths. Perspectives, 002. Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore Hertog, Steffen (2007) EU-GCC relations in the era of the second oil boom. EU and the Middle East , 17.12.2007 · C·A·P. Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung, Munich, Germany Hertog, Steffen (2007) Renewing an old geo-economic axis: Asia and the GCC. Gulf Research Center, Dubai, UAE Hertog, Steffen (2006) Perspectives of economic integration in the Arab countries. Committee on Foreign Affairs, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium Hertog, Steffen (2006) The oil-foreign policy nexus: a response to Simon Bromley. St Antony's international review, 2 (1). pp. 71-74. ISSN 1746-451X Hertog, Steffen (2006) The new corporatism in Saudi Arabia: limits of formal politics. In: Khalaf, Abdulhadi and Luciani, Giacomo, (eds.) Constitutional reform and political participation in the Gulf. Gulf Research Center, Dubai, UAE, pp. 239-273. ISBN 9948432533 Hertog, Steffen (2006) Segmented clientelism: the political economy of Saudi economic reform efforts. In: Aarts, Paul and Nonneman, Gerd, (eds.) Saudi Arabia in the balance political economy, society, foreign affairs. NYU Press, New York, USA. ISBN 9780814707173 Hertog, Steffen (2006) Modernizing without democratizing? the introduction of formal politics in Saudi Arabia. Internationale politik und gesellschaft, (3). pp. 65-78. ISSN 0945-2419 Hertog, Steffen (2005) Building the body politic: the emerging corporatism in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. Chroniques du Yémen et de la Péninsule Arabe, 2004 (12). ISSN 1248-0568 Hertog, Steffen Good, bad or both?: the impact of oil on the Saudi political economy. In: Business politics in the Middle East . , pp. 221-250. ISBN 9781849042093
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