Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security

الغلاف الأمامي
Cornell University Press, 1988 - 524 من الصفحات

Combining vast scholarship and a deep understanding of Arab culture, Nadav Safran has written a sophisticated book about the politics of Saudi Arabia. In a narrative that emphasizes the Saudis' sense of the precariousness of their state and of their position in the Middle East, Safran demystifies the behavior of the Kingdom's rulers.

Security has long been the predominant concern of Saudi Arabia. In 1981, the Kingdom's defense and security budget was an immense $25 billion, the fourth largest in the world, after the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, and the highest in the world on a per capita basis. Safran traces the roots of Saudi preoccupation with security through half a century, discerning political struggles and policy differences in the Saud family and how they have affected the position of the country. His treatment provides an enlightening perspective on the interplay of the politics of the elite; shifting inter-Arab alignments and rivalries; war, revolution, and other cataclysmic events in the Persian Gulf; the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict; and the involvement of the United States in the Middle East.

 

المحتوى

Part One The Origins of Saudi Arabia
7
Creating an Empire 19021932
28
Preserving the Empire 19321953
57
Tribulations under the First Successor
77
Part Three The Reign of Faisal 19641975
113
The October War and Its Aftermath 19731975
151
The Defense and Security Perspective 19631975
180
Part Four The Reign of Khaled 19751982
215
Shifting
295
Opposite Pulls
309
Crosscurrents and Uncertainty
352
Living with the Problem
386
Ambivalence
398
The Defense and Security Perspective 19751982
420
Retrospect and Prospect
449
Notes
465

The Cairo
240
Balancing Baghdad and Tehran
265
The Yemens Oman and the Horn of Africa 19751979
282
Bibliography
491
Index
509
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نبذة عن المؤلف (1988)

Nadav Safran is the Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle East Studies at Harvard University.

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