Alexei Vassiliev

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Personality, Faith and Times

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive biography of one of the modern Arab world's most important rulers, who established Saudi Arabia's global influence today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• New edition
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780863561290
• ISBN-10: 0863561292
• Artikelnr.: 43383721

Autorenporträt

Alexei Vassiliev is Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). He is the author of over thirty books, including the critically acclaimed The History of Saudi Arabia, winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, Central Asia: Political and Economic Challenges in Post-Soviet Era (both by Saqi Books), and Russian Policy in the Middle East: From Messianism to Pragmatism.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Chapter one: The Delicate Youth on a Fiery Horse
Chapter two: The Father
Chapter three: An Adolescent Discovers the Big, Big World
Chapter four: From Youngster to Statesman
Chapter five: Viceroy of Hijaz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Military
Commander
Chapter six: Oil and Gold
Chapter seven: Faisal and Iffat, Iffat and Faisal
Chapter eight: World War II and the Discovery of America
Chapter nine: The Autumn and Winter of the Patriarch
Chapter ten: My Brother, My King, My Sorrow
Chapter eleven: The Pendulum: Premiership to Dismissal to Deputy
Premiership
Chapter twelve: To Be or Not to Be
Chapter thirteen: The Road to the Throne - Without Bloodshed
Chapter fourteen: King at Last
Chapter fifteen: Nasser and the Yemen Trap
Chapter sixteen: The Six-Day War
Chapter seventeen: Two Yemens: A Headache, but No Threat
Chapter eighteen: Political Realities, Old and New
Chapter nineteen: Al-Aqsa Ablaze
Chapter twenty: Taming Aramco
Chapter twenty-one: Death of Nasser, Rise of Sadat
Chapter twenty-two: The Year 1973: Five to Twelve
Chapter twenty-three: The 1973 War
Chapter twenty-four: 1973: The Embargo
Chapter twenty-five: "The Mightiest of Arab Rulers"
chapter twenty-six: Poitiers, American-Style?
Chapter twenty-seven: A New Relationship with the US
Chapter twenty-eight: Financial Might: Beyond the Possible
Chapter twenty-nine: Storm of Change: the King Is Assassinated
Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography