June 1, 2016
Karen E. Young
Senior Resident Scholar
Karen E. Young is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. She was a research fellow at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2014-15, where she remains a non-resident fellow. From 2009-14, she was assistant professor of political science at the American University of Sharjah (UAE). Her research interests are based in comparative politics and political economy, focusing on processes of economic and political transition, state formation, and foreign policy decision making.
Young is the author of The Political Economy of Energy, Finance and Security in the United Arab Emirates: Between the Majilis and the Market, published by Palgrave in 2014. She has written for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Conservative Middle East Council, Gulf regional newspapers The National and Gulf News, and academic outlets including Kings College European Centre for Energy and Resource Security, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, and Security Dialogue. She has appeared frequently as a commentator/analyst on Al Jazeera International and CNBC Arabia. Young writes a regular commentary for AGSIW on Gulf politics and finance called Market Watch.
Young earned a PhD in political science from the City University of New York, an MA in political science from Columbia University, an MA in international economic relations from the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar (Quito), and a BA in anthropology from Wellesley College. She has worked in university administration at New York University at its Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and in the office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She has held research positions at the Ford Foundation, the Ralph Bunche Institute, and the Program on States and Security at the City University of New York.
Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Program (Ecuador 1997-99; Bulgaria 2005-06), the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Woodrow Wilson Center, U.S. State Department Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), American Political Science Association MENA Fellows Program and the Carnegie Corporation, and Emirates Foundation.
Publications
February 9, 2016
Exuberance in Europe, Restraint in America: Iran Sanctions Realities
January 26, 2016
Ties that Bind or Blind? Iranian – U.S. Rapprochement and its Effect on GCC Threat Perception
October 14, 2015
Refugee Crisis and Economic Migration: Regional Economic Interdependence and the Arab Gulf States
October 5, 2015
Markets Serving States: The Institutional Bases of Financial Governance in the Gulf Cooperation Council States
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Recent Articles
November 9, 2016
Saudi Arabia’s Impeccable Timing in Debt Markets
October 18, 2016
The Irony of Kuwait’s Economic Reform Agenda
September 28, 2016
For Saudi Economic Reforms, Timing is Everything
September 21, 2016
Gulf States are Torn Between Economic Sense and Military Ambition
September 9, 2016