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Adeel Malik

Adeel Malik

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Adeel Malik is Associate Professor of Development Economics and Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies at the University of Oxford.

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  1. A Tale of Two Middle Easts
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    A Tale of Two Middle Easts

    Sep 12, 2022 Adeel Malik shows how surging commodity prices have had sharply different effects across the region.

  2. How Foreign Powers Could Break Lebanon’s Gridlock
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    How Foreign Powers Could Break Lebanon’s Gridlock

    Jun 15, 2022 Jamal Ibrahim Haidar & Adeel Malik explain how elite failure and global inaction are compounding the country’s economic meltdown.

  3. Shelter from the Middle East’s Perfect Storm
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    Shelter from the Middle East’s Perfect Storm

    Apr 21, 2020 Bassem Awadallah & Adeel Malik show why the Arab world must abandon old models, overcome internal discord, and forge a new regional order.

  4. Turkish Democracy’s Secret Weapon
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    Turkish Democracy’s Secret Weapon

    Jul 26, 2016 Adeel Malik thinks the middle class will keep the post-coup crackdown in check.

  5. Escaping the Middle East’s Violence Trap
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    Escaping the Middle East’s Violence Trap

    May 21, 2015 Adeel Malik & Bassem Awadallah explain why economic cooperation will be necessary for political stability in the region.

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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek

    The European Jewish Association’s recent insistence on the exceptional nature of anti-Semitism raises important questions about the nature of privilege and oppression in contemporary societies. The risk is that the EJA’s conceptual framework could all too easily reproduce the very bigotry it seeks to oppose.

    sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.
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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

    blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric's coalition for the rapid rise of far right populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.

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