Karen Young
2,695 posts
Karen Young
@ProfessorKaren
Senior Research Scholar @Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy @ColumbiaUEnergy; political economist on Gulf; Senior Fellow @MiddleEastInst; Member @CFR_org
- My latest for @ForeignAffairs How Saudi Arabia Sees the World foreignaffairs.com/saudi-arabia/h… @ColumbiaUEnergy
- Today I joined @MiddleEastInst as a Senior Fellow and Director of a new program on Economics and Energy. Looking for new collaborations to explore growth opportunities & challenges across MENA, energy transition, aid & investment flows. And understanding loss, costs of conflict.
- Fareed Zakaria is on to an argument I've been making for a while now: The rise of the Persian Gulf is reshaping the world wapo.st/46cFxOG I quantify and demonstrate exactly how this "reshaping" is happening, and the reform movement since 2015 that is the backbone of the
- Look what arrived in the mail: new book w my chapter with @taimurkhan on UAE economic stateccraft in the Horn of Africa. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526162168/
- My latest for @ForeignAffairs on the tension between sustainable development goals, climate mitigation and the significant role Gulf state investors and developers will play. foreignaffairs.com/persian-gulf/g… @ColumbiaUEnergy
- Looking for a simple explainer on what happened in oil markets yesterday, and implications for Gulf producers? Here you go, my best quick effort:
- On the question of Gulf, esp UAE, "neutrality" and "balancing" between Russia and the US/West, there are some inconsistencies. The argument is that it is part of a national strategic interest to hedge. (thread) ft.com/content/5e3b09…
- Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign $1.8 billion deal to link their power grids -- East Medina and Tubok gas power plants KSA will be connected to the Badr Power Plant, east of Cairo, by 1,350 km of cables and a 22km undersea network.thenationalnews.com/business/2021/… via @TheNationalNews
- Saudi Arabia plans to pump $3.2 trillion by 2030 to boost private sector, including 3 trillion riyals (about $800 billion) from PIF. That's interesting b/c PIF does not have $800b now, and would nearly empty it at its "goal" size of $1 trillion in 5 years.
- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thank you for all of the kind messages. I'm doing much better. (Will delete the scary hospital shot in favor of this one.)
- If they are selling it, it must be real. (Proof pages any day now.) My new book, forthcoming later this year.
