Steffen Hertog

Steffen Hertog is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. He was previously Kuwait Professor at Sciences Po in Paris, lecturer in Middle East political economy at Durham University and a post-doc at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford and MSc and M.A degrees from the School of Oriental Studies and the University of Bonn.

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Steffen’s main interest lies in Gulf and Middle East political economy, with a specific focus on the political economy of public sectors, state-business relations and labour markets. He has a subsidiary interest in issues in the socio-economic and psychological roots of highly asymmetric political violence ("terrorism").

 

His academic publications have appeared in leading political science and area studies journals, including American Political Science Review, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, Sociological Methods and Research and Comparative Studies in Society and History. His book on the politics of economic reform in Saudi Arabia, Princes, Brokers and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia, was published by Cornell University Press in 2010. He is the co-author, with Diego Gambetta, of “Engineers of Jihad: the Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education” (with Princeton University Press 2016), and has most recently published a short monograph entitled “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism” (Cambridge University Press 2023).

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Email: s.hertog@lse.ac.uk

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LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffen-hertog-54041a17/?originalSubdomain=uk

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Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=P5EgxrkAAAAJ&hl=en

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/shertog1