Rohan Advani
Degrees
- M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (2022)
- M.A. in Near Eastern Studies, New York University (2018)
- B.S.F.S. in Regional and Comparative Studies, Georgetown University (2016)
Fields of Study
Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Middle East and North Africa, Singapore
Publications
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
2026. “Banking on the Ruins of Empire: Developing Global Finance in Kuwait and Singapore,” Social Science History doi:10.1017/ssh.2026.10136
2026. “Neoliberalism and the Evolution of Singapore’s Developmental State: Partial Privatization as Problem-Solving.” Global Perspectives doi.org/10.1525/gp.2026.160059
2017. “Pockets of Privilege: A Historical, Spatial, and Political Economy Analysis of Industrial Zones in Palestine,” New Middle Eastern Studies7.
“From Development Fund to Global Investor: Tracing the Evolution of State Capital at Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala” (revise and resubmit at Global Political Economy).
Book Chapters
2023. “Marxism and Neo-Marxism,” with Michael A. McCarthy, in Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
2019. “A Realm Without Rights: Noncitizen Workers and Exclusive Citizenship in the Gulf,” in Thanassis Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna (eds.) Citizenship and its Discontents: The Struggle for Rights, Pluralism, and Inclusion in the Middle East. New York: TCF Press.
Book Reviews
2023. “Book review: Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil,” Arab Studies Journal.
2023. “Book review: Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
2019. “The Imperious Interventions of Gulf Capital,” Middle East Research and Information Project, August 28.
Online Publications (selected)
2026. “Protection or Vulnerability? Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Iran War,” Arab Center Washington DC, April 14.
2025. “Trump’s Tariffs End a Liberalization Dream in the Middle East—And Shrink American Influence,” The Century Foundation, May 5.
2025. “Dirigisme Just to Feel Something,” Tribune Magazine, April 8.
2025. “Will Gulf Countries Think Trump’s Glitter is Gold?” The Century Foundation, March 24.
2021. “Sowing Scarcity: Syria’s Wheat Regime from Self-Sufficiency to Import Dependency,” Jadaliyya, February 16.
2020. “A Pit(i)less Blame Game at the Beirut Port of Institutional Corruption,” The Public Source, September 22 (republished by Jadaliyya on September 30).
2019. “Constructing Commercial Empire,” The Century Foundation, December 9.
2019. “Economic crisis looms as the Syrian pound plummets to an all-time low,” with Waleed al-Nofal, Syria Direct, November 26.
2019. “A Realm Without Rights,” The Century Foundation, April 16.