Saudi Arabia - 9781849047227

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril\nby Paul Aarts\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Paul Aarts\nTitle: Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Comparative politics\nPublisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781849047227\nISBN-10: 1849047227\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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 a.