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The Political Economy of Sanctions and War Webinar
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Tue, Apr 28, 2026
3 PM – 4:15 PM (GMT+2)
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The Arab Political Science Network, in partnership with the Project on Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism at The American University in Cairo, invites you to a webinar discussion titled "The Political Economy of Sanctions and War."
This is the second session in Political Economy from the Global South, which is an online seminar series that brings together scholars and practitioners to rethink the global political economic order from the vantage point of regions often positioned at the margins. The series emphasizes critical approaches to capitalism and decoloniality, examining how histories of extraction, racialized labor, and imperial governance continue to shape contemporary economic life.
This particular session aims to examine war as a geopolitical and security phenomenon and, more critically, as a socio-economic process that reshapes states, markets, and societies. It will explore how ongoing and protracted conflicts are sustained through complex political and economic dynamics, while extending the discussion to economic warfare, such as sanctions, tariffs, and trade restrictions, as key instruments that restructure economies.
*Simultaneous interpretation to Arabic is available.
Speakers
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Associate Professor
American University of Beirut
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos is an Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut, with joint appointments in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, and an Associate Editor for Middle East Critique. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Piraeus, a Magister (BA-MA) in Anthropology and Economics from the Free University in Berlin and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Zurich. His academic trajectory includes postdoctoral positions at Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris, visiting teaching engagements at Columbia University, Sciences Po Paris, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and visiting research positions at CUNY, Rutgers University, and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Ahmed Morsy
Co-Founder and Chair
Arab Political Science Network
Ahmed Morsy is a co-founder of the Arab Political Science Network, a non-profit organization that supports scholars of politics and political science from the Arab world. He is a visiting fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and an associate senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Ahmed received his PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews. Ahmed's research and expertise include the study and analysis of foreign and security policies in the Middle East, North Africa and the United States as well as state-society relations in Arab states. Most recently he has been working on mediation and conflict resolution tracks across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.
Joseph Daher
Academic and Author
Joseph Daher is an academic and author specializing on the Middle East, particularly on Lebanon and Syria. Dr. Daher holds a dual academic foundation with two doctorates: a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Lausanne. He has held several teaching and research positions and has conducted consultancy work for various UN Agencies, NGOs and research centers. Dr. Daher has published several books, including ‘’Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God’’, and "Syria after the uprisings".
Hana Attia
Assistant Professor of Security Policy and Peace
Leuphana University
Hana Attia is an Assistant Professor of Security Policy and Peace at Leuphana University and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), where she works in the Institute for Middle East Studies. Her research examines how states and international organizations use economic statecraft, particularly economic sanctions, to respond to crises and address challenges to peace and security. Her work has been published in leading international journals, and she uses her expertise on sanctions for public and policy engagement.