Salman's legacy: the dilemmas of a new era in Saudi Arabia
A timely look at the personalities and factions contending for power in Riyadh as one princely order crumbles and another asserts itself
| Summary: | A timely look at the personalities and factions contending for power in Riyadh as one princely order crumbles and another asserts itself Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The Dilemmas of a New Era -- Part I: State and Society -- 1. Saudi Regime Stability and Challenges -- 2. Mystique of Monarchy: The Magic of Royal Succession in Saudi Arabia -- 3. Challenges to the Saudi Distributional State in the Age of Austerity -- 4. Beyond Sectarianism and Ideology: Regionalism and Collective Political Action in Saudi Arabia -- 5. From Hasm to Hazm: Saudi Feminism beyond Patriarchal Bargaining -- Part II: Saudi Arabia and Transnational Salafiyya -- 6. Producing Salafism: From Invented Tradition to State Agitprop -- 7. Transnational Religious Community and the Salafi Mission -- 8. Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and the Islamic State: 'Abdullah ibn Jibrin and Turki al-Bin'ali -- 9. Parricide in the Kingdom: Genealogy, Nationalism, and the Islamic State Challenge -- Part III: Foreign Relations -- 10. Saudi Arabia and the Cold War -- 11. King Salman and His Son: Winning the USA, Losing the Rest -- 12. China's 'Rise' in the Gulf: A Saudi Perspective -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 0190050152 |