Saudi Arabia in books.(Book review)

From: Middle East Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The United States has a bipolar relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulfemirates. On one hand, Western economies remain dependent on imported oil of which the Saudi fields are an important source. On the other hand, many policymakers are repelled by Saudi subsidization of Islamic extremism. Fifteen of the nineteen 9-11 hijackers were Saudi. Despite the importance of the relationship, literature about Saudi Arabia, the smaller Arab emirates, and their relationship with the West remains thin. What does exist falls into three categories: treatments of oil, examinations of ...

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