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Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili

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What Makes the Arabian Peninsula Particularly Interesting?

La luccalili: Maritime trade logistics and hydrocarbon transport are the clearest distillation how global capitalism operates to day. And also that the ports of the peninsula seem to manifestly crystallize the confluence of military naval interest, capital accumulation and labor. Why is it that jabal ali port appears there and nowhere else? I mean, one obvious response with bo bel diseram, oil producing economies. But what is also specifically interesting about to by is that doby actually doesn't have very much oil.

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