Hutton Honors College

Oil, International Security, and
Environmental Sustainability: Discussion Supper
with Ahmad Shikara of the United Arab Emirates

Monday, April 13, 2009 * 5:30-7 p.m. * Harlos House (1331 E. Tenth St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

U.S. political leaders have repeatedly called independence from foreign oil a matter of national security and many have warned that independence from oil is a matter of environmental security. Based in the United Arab Emirates, Ahmad Shikara has studied the search for environmental sustainability from the producer's perspective. Why have the major oil producers of the Gulf committed vast amounts of their capital to investigating and testing ways of dealing with scarce resources? With graduate degrees in political science from Britain, Shikara has taught at the United Arab Emirates University, has taught and conducted research in Japan and New Zealand, and is now teaching and researching at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi. He has published widely and lectured extensively on the Middle East and the Gulf and regularly contributes to the Abu Dhabi newspaper Al-Ittihad. The supper is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

On campus as a guest of the Center for the Study of Global Change and the Institute for Advanced Study, Shikara will speak on "Scarcity of Vital Resources: Oil and the Persian Gulf" on Wednesday, April 15, at 3:30 p.m. in the Distinguished Alumni Room of the IMU. The Wednesday event is free and open to the public.

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