Professor Ken Christie will be presenting a co-authored paper on "Globalization and state formation in the “new” Middle East: Comparing the UAE and Jordan" at the fifth ASMEA conference, Washington DC, October 2012. The conference takes place between Oct. 11-13.
ASMEA is the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (based in the USA).
A link to the details of the conference follows:
http://asmeascholars.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1471&Itemid=118