"Jordan first": Jordan's inter-Arab relations and foreign policy under King Abdullah II.
From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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Date: 6/22/2004
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Author: Ryan, Curtis R.
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THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN has long played a regional foreign policy role that seems to belie its small size and its limited economic and military means. (1) That role in no way diminished even after the succession in the Jordanian monarchy from King Hussein to his son Abdullah in 1999. But with the death of Hussein and the accession to the throne of King Abdullah II, Jordan did nonetheless have a new top foreign policy maker for the first time in 46 years. On 9 June 2004, the ...
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