Adam Hanieh, the Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute, MBI Jaber Chair of Middle East Studies and Professor in the Development Studies Department at SOAS, joins Rida Fathima, an MSc Global Development student at SOAS, to discuss the blockade of the strait of Hormuz and the cascading consequences of the US-Iran war in this insightful and very timely episode. 

Mapping the oil frontiers of the past, we discuss the future of gulf investment, migratory labour regimes, and what this new crude frontier in eventually means for debt and consumption in the global south and the rest of the world.