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Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index. Includes genealogical tables. Contents: The emergence of dynastic monarchy and the causes of its persistence -- Arabian society and the emergence of the petro-state -- The dynasties : the Al Sabah and the Al Saud -- The dynasties : the Al Thani, Al Khalifa, Al Nahayan, Al Maktum, and Al Said -- Strategies of regime and opposition in the dynastic monarchies -- Libya and Afghanistan -- Five nondynastic monarchies -- Dynastic monarchism and the persistence of hereditary rule -- The theory of the rentier state and constitutional monarchy in the Middle East.

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