Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril
Aarts, Paul, Roelants, Carolien
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Description for Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril
Hardcover. Two seasoned Saudi-watchers diagnose whether or not the Kingdom's body politic is ailing and if its condition might be terminal. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be against Islam. Saudi dollars bent events to the Kingdom's will in the Arab world - particularly in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, but also in Egypt and Lebanon, Saudi cash has had a profound impact. Does this mean that all is well in Saudi Arabia itself, which has an extremely youthful population ruled by a gerontocracy? Problems endemic in Egypt, ... Read more
The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be against Islam. Saudi dollars bent events to the Kingdom's will in the Arab world - particularly in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, but also in Egypt and Lebanon, Saudi cash has had a profound impact. Does this mean that all is well in Saudi Arabia itself, which has an extremely youthful population ruled by a gerontocracy? Problems endemic in Egypt, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hurst
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849044653
SKU
V9781849044653
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Ref
99-41
About Aarts, Paul, Roelants, Carolien
Paul Aarts teaches International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs (Hurst, 2006, ed. with Gerd Nonneman). Carolien Roelants is senior Middle East editor at NRC Handelsblad.
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