Gulf Research Meeting
Tim Niblock
GRM 2024 Workshop: Conflict Resolution Initiatives in the Gulf and Beyond: Strategies of Engagement and Prospects of Success
GRM 2023 Workshop: The Gulf and the Horn of Africa: Trans-Regional Competition and Cooperation
GRM 2022 Workshop: Living Together Separately: social and cultural implications of migration to the GCC countries
GRM 2021 Workshop: Maritime Security and the Gulf States: Changing Strategies, New Political Rationales
GRM 2019 Workshop: A Peace Process for the Gulf: International Initiatives and Gulf Conflict Resolution
GRM 2018 Workshop: The Gulf and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
GRM 2017 Workshop: The GCC and the Indian Ocean: Economic Opportunities and Political Challenges
GRM 2016 Workshop: Collective Security in the Gulf: Prospects for Pan-Gulf Cooperation
GRM 2015 Workshop: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the BRICS
GRM 2014 Workshop: The United States and the Gulf: Towards a Reassessment of Gulf Commitments and Alignments?
GRM 2013 Workshop: The Gulf and Asia Political Relations and Strategic Options in a Developing Scenario (China, India, South Korea and Japan)
GRM 2012 Workshop: Asia and the Gulf: Comparative Analysis of the Roles of Asian Countries
GRM 2011 Workshop: WTO and Globalization: GCC Impact
GRM 2010 Workshop: Gulf China Relations
Tim Niblock is Chair Professor in the Institute for International and Area Studies at Tsinghua University, and Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the University of Exeter. He has held the position of Vice-President of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (2009-2014), Vice-Chair of the UK Council of Area Studies Associations (2010-2014), and Vice-President of the British Society for Middle East Studies (2009-2012). He was the founding Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He has previously served at the University of the University of Reading and the University of Durham. Between 1969 and 1977, he was Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Khartoum. Among his published books are: The Gulf States, Asia and the Indian Ocean: Ensuring the Security of the Sea Lanes (edited with Talmiz Ahmad and Degang Sun, 2018); Conflict Resolution and the Creation of a Security Community in the Gulf Region (edited, with Talmiz Ahmad and Degang Sun); Security Dynamics of East Asia in the Gulf Region (edited, with Yang Guang, 2014); Asia-Gulf Economic Relations in the 21st Century. The Local to Global Transformation (edited, with Monica Malik, 2013), The Political Economy of Saudi Arabia (2007), Saudi Arabia: Power, Legitimacy and Survival (2006), ‘Pariah States’ and Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya and Sudan (2001), Class and Power in Sudan (1987), Iraq: the Contemporary State (edited, 1982), State, Society and Economy in Saudi Arabia (edited, 1981), and Social and Economic Development in the Arab Gulf (edited, 1980).
