Dr. Marie van den Bosch is the Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). She received her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in June 2018, with a focus on Comparative Politics. Her research interests are in authoritarian political systems, regime survival politics, and the comparative political economy of oil. Her dissertation focused on political survival strategies through economic diversification in oil-dependent countries. Her ongoing research investigates two intertwined questions: what is the effect of non-state elite groups on government spending patterns, and what is the role of oil in shaping political survival strategies for authoritarian regimes. She also holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University’s CCAS.