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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 | |