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Younes Abouyoub, PhD, is a senior research fellow with the Department of Political Science at the University of New England in Maine, USA. He has worked in different capacities for the United Nations on issues of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and sustainable development, including in the MENA region. He holds a Ph.D. in political sociology. His work has appeared, inter alia, in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern History, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam, The Routledge International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, the Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Wiley-Blackwell), Middle East Eye, as well as in edited books.
Economic Diversification, Energy Transition, and the Labor Market in Iraq and the Gulf
As part of a continued collaboration with the Middle East Peace and Security Forum held in Iraqi Kurdistan at the American University of Kurdistan, the Middle East Institute and the Iraq Policy Group held a workshop on Nov.15, 2022 focusing on challenges of economic diversification, energy transition, and impacts on labor markets in Iraq and the Gulf region. This report provides the insights and analyses of a select group of participants from the workshop.
The geopolitics of energy transition in MENA: Mitigating risks, exploring new opportunities
Energy remains at the heart of the geopolitical chessboard. Despite recent advances in the development of renewable energy sources, their share in the energy mix remains limited as oil still meets most of the transportation sector’s needs. The development of renewable energies is not yet able to drastically change this reality.
