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Article: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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- Middle East Policy
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by David E. Long. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida 1997. 154 pages, with appendix, notes, bibliography, index, maps, tables and illustrations. $49.95, hardcover.
Many Westerners, even those who have visited Saudi Arabia on business or with the military, find the kingdom puzzling. The country is renowned in the West for its vast oil resources but also for having an anachronistic form of government and for being a closed society unwelcoming to non-Muslims, upon whom it relies for help in developing its resources or assuring its national security. David Long believes that misleading stereotypes have made it difficult for ...