Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-349) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the dilemmas of a new era -- Part I. State and society -- Saudi regime stability and challenges -- Mystique of monarchy: the magic of royal succession in Saudi Arabia -- Challenges to the Saudi distributional state in the age of austerity -- Beyond sectarianism and ideology: regionalism and collective political action in Saudi Arabia -- From Hasm to Hazm: Saudi feminism beyond patriarchal bargaining -- Part II. Saudi Arabia and transnational Salafiyya -- Producing Salafism: from invented tradition to state Agitprop -- Transnational religious community and the Salafi mission -- Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and the Islamic state: 'Abdullah ibn Jibrin and Turki al-Bin'ali -- Parricide in the kingdom: genealogy, nationalism, and the Islamic state challenge -- Part III. Foreign relations -- Saudi Arabia and the Cold War -- King Salman and his son: winning the USA, losing the rest -- China's 'rise' in the Gulf: a Saudi perspective.
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