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Thicker Than Oil America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia

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ISBN-10: 0195367057

ISBN-13: 9780195367058

Edition: 2008

Authors: Rachel Bronson

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For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so intimate and how the countries' shared interests sowed the seeds of today's most pressing problem--Islamic radicalism. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, declassified documents, and interviews with leading Saudi and American officials, and including many colorful stories of diplomatic adventures and misadventures, Bronson chronicles a history of close, and always controversial, contacts. She argues that contrary to popular belief the relationship was never simply…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 2.50" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Rachel Bronson is Vice President of Programs and Studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Her writings have appeared in publications such as Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Chicago Tribune. She has commented widely on foreign affairs in outlets such as NPR, CNN, The Lehrer News Hour, The Charlie Rose Show, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.