REGIONAL POLITICS IN THE GULF: SAUDI ARABIA, OMAN, YEMEN

"The three major neighbouring states of the Arabian Peninsula - Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen - make for strange bedfellows. They are governed by three very different systems with very different results, calling into question how their internal policies affect regional relations and vice versa." "Each state adheres to a different Islamic sect, moreover, and though their populations are overwhelmingly Arab, differing tribal structures result in widely variant effects on the political process in their respective systems. Each state has also had extensive historical relationships with the Ottoman and British empires, the US and Russia, and these too have coloured regional relations." "Manea examines each country in detail, from state formation to current affairs and from local to national government."--BOOK JACKET.