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Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies provides an essential compendium of information regarding the politically charged issue of succession in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Monarchy --- Political stability --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Energy industries --- Oil industries --- Destabilization (Political science) --- Political instability --- Stability, Political --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Legitimacy of governments --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- Government policy --- Political aspects --- Persian Gulf Region --- Politics and government --- Monarchie --- Stabilité politique --- Pétrole --- Case studies. --- Cas, Etudes de --- Industrie et commerce --- Politique gouvernementale --- Aspect politique --- Persique, Région du Golfe --- Politique et gouvernement

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Saudi Arabia --- Saudi Arabia --- Kings and rulers --- Succession. --- Politics and government

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In July 1970, amid vast turmoil throughout the Persian Gulf region, Qaboos bin Sa'id led a successful coup against his father and proclaimed himself the new Head of State. Sultan Qaboos promised to institute a modern, efficient, and just government and to establish friendly relations with neighboring countries. Facing significant internal challenges to his authority, Qaboos restored internal order through effective military and economic measures. Simultaneously, he adopted long-term principles that facilitated the introduction of capable foreign policy initiatives, based on nonintervention in the affairs of other countries, respect for international law, and nonalignment. Today, the Sultanate of Oman remains stable--its foreign policy flexible by nature, its regional preeminence assured. This report systematically analyzes the foreign policy of the Sultanate. It traces the origins of the Omani nation-state, identifies trends in Omani diplomacy, and examines the Sultanate's foreign policy in the modern era, focusing on relations with states on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Persian Gulf region, with the West, and around the world.

Oman --- Oman --- History. --- Foreign relations.

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This report argues that the Persian Gulf war rapidly accelerated an ongoing polarization of the Arab world. The result has been an Arab community split into two distinct camps: aspiring non-autocratic states arrayed against more countries that embrace traditional political values and processes. From the tangled skein that characterizes Mideast politics, four major threads can be identified: (1) the re-establishment of the authority of Baathist Iraq and its rebuilding of ties to the Arab world; (2) the political and military awakening of Saudi Arabia; (3) the intractable internal dilemmas of the Gulf shaykhdoms; and (4) the continuing challenge to the ruling establishments to introduce true political reform. Political and military relations between the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. But growing internal dissatisfaction in the Gulf states may spark anti-American sentiments, and these issues need to be better understood.

Arabian Peninsula --- Politics and government.