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| Figures Tables, and Charts | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on Titles, Names, and Conventions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Explanations for Revolution | |
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| Dynastic Monarchy | |
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| Rentier Income | |
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| The Educated (or New) Middle Class | |
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| Political Participation and Revolution | |
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| The Scope of the Study, Theoretic Approach, and the Cases Examined | |
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| The Emergence of Dynastic Monarchy and the Causes of Its Persistence | |
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| The Rise of the Arabian Dynasties | |
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| Norms within the Ruling Families | |
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| Marriage and Dynastic Monarchism | |
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| Consultation and the Mediation of Dynastic Rule | |
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| The Resolution of Disputes within the Dynasties | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Arabian Society and the Emergence of the Petro-State | |
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| Ascriptive Status in Arabia | |
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| Elite Clans | |
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| The Merchants | |
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| The Rise of the Educated Middle Class | |
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| The Relative Decline of the Bedouin | |
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| Foreigners | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Dynasties: The Al Sabah and the Al Saud | |
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| The Al Sabah | |
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| The Al Saud | |
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| The Dynasties: The Al Thani, Al Khalifa, Al Nahayan, Al Maktum, and Al Said | |
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| The Al Thani of Qatar | |
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| The Al Khalifa of Bahrain | |
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| A Note on the Emirates | |
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| The Al Nahayan of Abu Dhabi | |
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| The Al Maktum of Dubai | |
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| The Al Said of Oman | |
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| Variations in the Capture of the Petro-States by the Dynasties | |
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| Strategies of Regime and Opposition in the Dynastic Monarchies | |
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| Kuwait | |
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| Saudi Arabia | |
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| Bahrain | |
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| Qatar | |
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| The Emirates | |
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| Oman | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Libya and Afghanistan | |
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| Libya | |
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| Afghantistan | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Five Nondynastic Monarchies | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Iraq | |
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| Iran | |
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| Morocco | |
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| Jordan | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Dynastic Monarchism and the Persistence of Hereditary Rule | |
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| Dynastic Monarchy | |
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| Other Explanations | |
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| Education | |
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| Rentierism, Revolution, and Resilience | |
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| Opposition | |
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| The Composition of the Military | |
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| Tribe and Kim as Inclusionary Political Institutions | |
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| Foreign Powers | |
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| Parliaments | |
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| Statecraft | |
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| The Lessons of the Dynastic Monarchies | |
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| The Theory of the Rentier State and Constitutional Monarchy in the Middle East | |
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| The Theory of the Rentier State | |
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| When Parliamentary Liberalizations Succeed | |
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| The Flexibility of Monarchial Institutions in Accommodating Democratic Compromises | |
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| The Absolutisms and Western Policy | |
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| Monarchy and Political Development | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |