PUBLICATIONS
The Dubai Initiative publishes the works of its Senior Fellows, Research Fellows, Associates, and others affiliated with the organization. We also offer complimentary hard-copies of our Working Papers and Policy Briefs series. Please contact us at dubai_initiative@hks.harvard.edu for more information.
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April 29, 2009
"Ending Arab Corruption"
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
The Arab Anti-Corruption Organization (AACO) is one of several institutions in the Arab world working to break through -- or at least chip away at -- the steel wall that protects the prevailing centralized, autocratic power structures.
March 11, 2008
Mohammed Bin Rashid Programme for Leadership Development-Young Leaders
Agenda for Mohammed Bin Rashid Programme for Leadership
Development-Young Leaders
Performance Management
6th -7th January, 2008
March 11, 2008
The Frontiers Leadership Development Program - DEWA
Agenda for The Frontiers
Leadership Development Program - DEWA
Performance Management
8 - 9 January, 2008
November 20, 2007
Innovations in Governance Workshop delivered to the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
This workshop examines innovations in governance and will include sessions on creating public value, strategic management, negotiation, e-government and an overview public-private partnerships.
November 20, 2007
Innovations in Governance Workshop
In collaboration with The Dubai Initiative, The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation will hold its first Faculty Workshop at the Dubai School of Government on November 25-27 and will include sessions on creating public value, strategic management, strategic managment of both communication and conflicts, and an overview of public-private partnerships.
November 2007
The Middle East: Between Progress and Conflict
The Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center and The Dubai School of Government are pleased to announce their first joint conference at the Kennedy School of Government, scheduled to take place on November 8, 2007.
June 3, 2008
Professor Emad Shahin, DI Facutly Affiliate, on "Toleration in Modern Islamic Polity: Contemporary Islamic Views"
By Emad Shahin, Former Faculty Affiliate, The Dubai Initiative
Professor Emad Shahin, Visiting Professor in Harvard's Government Department and DI Faculty Affiliate, recently published a chapter on "Toleration in Modern Islamic Polity: Contemporary Islamic Views" in Toleration on Trial.
September 4, 2007
DI Welcomes Four New Fellows
The Dubai Initiative welcomes its four new Research Fellows for 2007-2008: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ant Bozkaya, Marwa Farag, and Haroon Ullah.
Forthcoming, September 2012
The Dimensions of Resource Nationalism
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
This book illustrates the historical trajectory of resource nationalism, spanning from its articulation as a legal system to extract resources in the Americas by imperial Spain to an anti-colonial platform developed to increase state control over the energy sector. In a fresh review of this contentious topic, this book provides a broad introduction to resource nationalism and considers whether the ideology has actually contributed to the economic growth and national development of energy-rich developing countries.
This book is a timely piece that can be used as an advanced textbook for graduate students in international affairs, as well as for energy practitioners who want to expand their knowledge of this topic. General readers will also find the text relevant and applicable to an everyday understanding of the drivers of politics in energy-rich developing countries.
May, 2011
The Gulf Natural Gas Dual Pricing Regime: WTO Rules and Economic Growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Stakeholders in the international economy have long considered energy a crucial aspect of national sovereignty - a commodity inherently political in nature. Because of its contentious nature, energy and natural resources have been the source of conflicts for a millennia. With the sharp increase of the international price of oil and natural gas from 2002-2008, energy subsidization in the energy-rich exporting countries assumed center stage. A narrow focus on this new dynamic, however, obscures the basic issue that developed and developing countries tend to view energy in fundamentally contradictory ways. For developed, OECD countries energy is primarily a tool used to promote the smooth running of the global economy. This new book discusses the role and development of energy in emerging regions.
