The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- ISBN-10
- 0813035112
- ISBN-13
- 9780813035116
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 209
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Authors
- David E. Long, Sebastian Maisel
Description
The land and people -- Historical background -- Tradition and modernization: Islam and society -- Oil and Saudi Arabia -- Economic development and modernization -- The Saudi political system -- Saudi foreign and national security policies -- Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century.
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