Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mordechai abir

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  • SAUDI ARABIA IN THE OIL ERA PBDIRECT
    MORDECHAI ABIR
    Saudi Arabia has undergone a rapid social and economic transformation. When Ibn Saud declared the nation a unified kingdom in 1932, the majority of its population was nomadic and lived in a state of poverty or semi-poverty. Now the processes of modernisation, financed by the exploitation of the country’s vast oil reserves, have produced a prosperous and predominantly urban popu...

    $820.00

  • SAUDI ARABIA IN THE OIL ERA
    MORDECHAI ABIR
    When I began a survey of source material for this book in the early 1980s, I was somewhat surprised by the paucity of sources relating to socio-political dynamics in modem Saudi Arabia both in European languages and Arabic. Thus, William Rugh's article 'Emergence of a New Middle Class in Saudi Arabia' (1973), for instance, remains a classic to this day. In the field of social a...

    $1,200.00

  • SAUDI ARABIA
    MORDECHAI ABIR
    This much-revised edition of Professor Abir's Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era now includes consideration of both Gulf Wars. Abir examines the social and political forces that have shaped Saudi Arabia, including the impact of Islam and of Westernization, drawing heavily on Saudi sources. There is also essential analysis of regional security dilemmas and of the country's prospects in...

    $1,200.00

  • IN THE DIRECTION OF THE GULF
    MORDECHAI ABIR / ARYEH YODFAT
    This text analyzes the USSR's interest in the countries of the Persian Gulf. The book places such interest within the context of the USSR's relations with the Arab world and the complexities of power politics. ...

    $5,300.00

  • ETHIOPIA AND THE RED SEA
    MORDECHAI ABIR
    First Published in 1980. An important waterway for international trade, the Red Sea is about 2000 kms. long and generally between 200-300 kms. wide. In its southern part the Arabian peninsula approaches the Horn of Africa to a distance of about 25 kms. This book is partly the outcome of research for the chapter called 'Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa' (from the middle of the si...

    $1,380.00

  • OIL, POWER AND POLITICS
    MORDECHAI ABIR
    This study of political relations in the Middle East analyzes the reasons behind the instability of the region. ...

    $660.00