Shipping Is Global Capitalism's Engine w/ Laleh Khalili - MR Live - 11/1/21

Sam and Emma host  Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, to discuss her recent book Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula.

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