The Paradoxical Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform
- ISBN-10
- 0231128142
- ISBN-13
- 9780231128148
- Category
- Globalization
- Pages
- 428
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Daryl Champion
Description
A specialist in Saudi Arabian affairs shows how religion, tradition, society, economics, politics and the state interact with each other as the nation lurches into the 21st century.
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