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Saudi Arabia on the Edge
Thomas W. Lippman
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Description for Saudi Arabia on the Edge
Hardback. Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. This title dissects this central Saudi paradox for American readers, including diplomats, policymakers, scholars, and students of foreign policy. Num Pages: 304 pages, notes; bibliography; index. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 1KBB; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 618.
Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. Saudi Arabia’s unique place in Islam makes it indispensable to a constructive relationship between the non-Muslim West and the Muslim world. For all its wealth, the country faces daunting challenges that it lacks the tools to meet: a restless and young population, a new generation of educated women demanding opportunities in a closed society, political stagnation under an octogenarian leadership, religious extremism and intellectual backwardness, social division, chronic unemployment, shortages ... Read more
Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. Saudi Arabia’s unique place in Islam makes it indispensable to a constructive relationship between the non-Muslim West and the Muslim world. For all its wealth, the country faces daunting challenges that it lacks the tools to meet: a restless and young population, a new generation of educated women demanding opportunities in a closed society, political stagnation under an octogenarian leadership, religious extremism and intellectual backwardness, social division, chronic unemployment, shortages ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597976886
SKU
V9781597976886
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99-13
About Thomas W. Lippman
Thomas W. Lippman, a former Middle East bureau chief for the Washington Post, is an award-winning journalist who has written about Middle Eastern affairs and American foreign policy for more than three decades. He is a former adjunct senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington. The author of ... Read more
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