Author: Fred Halliday
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015001985855
Category: Arab countries
Page: 544
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Arabia Without Sultans
Edition. Arabia. Without. Sultans. Revisited. A sense of just how vulnerable the Saudis are, and to how many different parties, emerges from a look at the books that have collected in the outer office of the Saudi intelligence chief, ...
Author: Fred Halliday
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 9780863567148
Category: Political Science
Page: 540
View: 159
Fred Halliday writes: 'The Arab Middle East is probably the most misunderstood of all regions; the one with the longest history of contact with the west; yet it is probably the one least understood. Part of the misunderstanding is due to the romantic mythology that has long appeared to shroud the deserts of the peninsula. Where old myths have broken down, new ones have absorbed them or taken their place. Now the Sheikh of Arabia has stepped down from his camel. Instead, through the delusive lens of the 'energy crisis' he is seen to be riding a Cadillac and squeezing the powerless Western consumer of oil.' First published in the 1970s, Arabia Without Sultans retains its validity for the present as it analyses the Arabian peninsula and Iran within the global context of western post-colonial strategy and the political economy of oil. Halliday offers a thorough study of the history, the politi and the economi of this region in an ambitious, encompassing and entertaining manner. This classic work remains indispensable for students, academi, and all those who wish to have a greater understanding of the Arabian peninsula. 'A well-documented work, written by an author who knows the language of the area.' Maxime Rodinson 'Halliday provides an unusual view-point and a well-documented description of the history of these states.' Middle East International 'Anyone interested in this area will want to read this.' International Affairs 'A most valuable account of the developments which have taken place in the Arab Gulf over the last hundred years.' Tariq AliAllies at the End of Empire
Halliday, Arabia Without Sultans, 220 and 242; V. V. Naumkin, The Red Wolves of Yemen: The Struggle for Independence (Cambridge, n.d.). Joe Starling, cited in Neillands, Fighting Retreat, 403. Halliday, Arabia Without Sultans, 226, n.
Author: David M. Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351664646
Category: History
Page: 168
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The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of the Cold War. In all the counter-insurgencies mounted against armed nationalist risings in this period, the European colonial powers employed locally recruited militias – styled as ‘loyalists’ – to fight their ‘dirty wars’. These loyalist histories have been neglected in the nationalist narratives that have dominated the post-decolonization landscape, and this book offers the first comparative assessment of the role played by these allies at the end of empire. Their experience illuminates the deeper ambiguities of the decolonization story: some loyalists were subjected to vengeful violence at liberation; others actually claimed the victory for themselves and seized control of the emergent state; while others still maintained a role as fighting units into the Cold War. The overlap between the history of decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War is a central theme in the studies presented here. The collection discusses the categorization of these ‘irregular auxiliary’ forces after 1945, and presents seven case studies from five European colonialisms, covering nine former colonies – Portugal (Angola), the Netherlands (Indonesia), France (Algeria), Belgium (Congo) and Britain (Cyprus, Kenya, Aden, South Yemen and Oman). This book was originally published as a special issue of the International History Review.The History of Saudi Arabia
F. Halliday, Arabia without Sultans, p. 111. The US News and World Report, 1965, no. 21, pp. 67–69. G. de Gaury, Faisal,p. 126; R. R. Sullivan, Saudi Arabia, p. 29. See: L. V. Valkova, Saudovskaya Araviya v, p. 131. The Times, 4 Aug.
Author: Alexei Vassiliev
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 9780863567797
Category: History
Page: 576
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How has Saudi Arabia managed to maintain its Arab and Islamic values while at the same time adopting Western technology and a market economy? How have its hereditary leaders, who govern with a mixture of political pragmatism and religious zeal, managed to maintain their power? This comprehensive history of Saudi Arabia from 1745 to the present provides insight into its culture and politi, its powerful oil industry, its relations with its neighbours, and the ongoing influence of the Wahhabi movement. Based on a wealth of Arab, American, British, Western and Eastern European sources, this book will stand as the definitive account of the largest state on the Arabian peninsula. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book 'If you read or own just one book on Saudi Arabia, make sure it is this one' -- Middle East Quarterly 'Combines a wealth of fascinating detail with rigorous and penetrating analysis.' -- Bernard Lewis 'An outstanding book: a study of the Saudi state rich in historical documentation. Comprehensive and measured.' -- Fred Halliday 'It will become required reading for all those interested in the country's shaping and development over the past two centuries.' -- Tim NiblockThe Gulf And The Search For Strategic Stability
38-41 ; Halliday , Arabia Without Sultans , p . 98 ; Wenner , Modern Yemen . 70. Nyrop , Area Handbook for the Yemens , pp . 41-42 . 71. Ibid . , p . 42 ; Halliday , Arabia Without Sultans , pp . 97-99 . 72. This account of events is ...
Author: Anthony H. Cordesman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000230185
Category: Political Science
Page: 1043
View: 838
This book provides an extensive military and strategic analysis of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, assessing the regional military balance, the internal security and stability of each Gulf nation, the evolution of each nation's forces from 1969 into 1983, and the impact of defense spending and Western and Soviet-bloc arms sales in the region. Comprehensive statistics are provided on arms transfers to each country since 1969 and on the forces each nation is capable of deploying in the Gulf.AngloArabia
171–81; Halliday, Arabia without Sultans, p. 333; Macris, The Politics and Security of the Gulf, pp. 167–9; Curtis, The Great Deception, p. 166. 89. Halliday, Arabia without Sultans, p. 345. 90. Ibid., pp. 313, 317, 322, 330–2, 345–6.
Author: David Wearing
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781509532063
Category: Political Science
Page: 240
View: 321
UK ties with Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies are under the spotlight as never before. Huge controversy surrounds Britain’s alliances with these deeply repressive regimes, and the UK’s key supporting role in the disastrous Saudi-led intervention in Yemen has lent added urgency to the debate. What lies behind the British government’s decision to place politics before principles in the Gulf? Why have Anglo-Arabian relations grown even closer in recent years, despite ongoing, egregious human rights violations? In this ground-breaking analysis, David Wearing argues that the Gulf Arab monarchies constitute the UK’s most important and lucrative alliances in the global south. They are central both to the British government’s ambitions to retain its status in the world system, and to its post-Brexit economic strategy. Exploring the complex and intertwined structures of UK-Gulf relations in trade and investment, arms sales and military cooperation, and energy, Wearing shines a light on the shocking lengths to which the British state has gone in order to support these regimes. As these issues continue to make the headlines, this book lifts the lid on ‘AngloArabia’ and what’s at stake for both sides.The History Thieves
59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. Ian Gardiner, In the Service of the Sultan, pp. 17-19; Halliday, Arabia Without Sultans, p. 313. Halliday, Arabia Without Sultans, p. 277. Fiennes, Where Soldiers Fear to Tread, p.
Author: Ian Cobain
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 9781846275845
Category: History
Page: 320
View: 626
In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about what they choose to share with the public, we have been left with a distorted and incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but of our nation's culture and its past. In this important book, Ian Cobain offers a fresh appraisal of some of the key moments in British history since the end of WWII, including: the measures taken to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park and its successor, GCHQ, for three decades; the unreported wars fought during the 1960s and 1970s; the hidden links with terrorist cells during the Troubles; the sometimes opaque workings of the criminal justice system; the state's peacetime surveillance techniques; and the convenient loopholes in the Freedom of Information Act. Drawing on previously unseen material and rigorous research, The History Thieves reveals how a complex bureaucratic machine has grown up around the British state, allowing governments to evade accountability and their secrets to be buried.Sultan In Arabia
Add 'Arab' and, better still, 'Sultan' to the term, and an age-old tapestry is unveiled, a rich and colourful ... ago the political writer Professor Fred Halliday, now of the London School of Economics, wrote Arabia Without Sultans.
Author: Christopher Ling
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9781845968311
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 240
View: 607
At a time when the influence of Islam and the Arab world dominate newspaper headlines as a result of bloodshed and terrorist threats, it will come as a welcome relief to learn of Sultan Qaboos. The very term 'Sultan' conjures up shades of peacock thrones and riches beyond the dreams of avarice. This incredible scene has almost vanished . . . but not quite.In today's oil-rich Arabia, one Sultan remains. He is one of the world's very last absolute rulers and presides over daily rituals the Ottomans of old Istanbul would recognise immediately. Arabia's sole surviving Sultan is, however, an arch exponent of the very British practice of discretion and reserve, which is far from surprising given that he owes his throne to the machinations of a very British coup. Indeed, so wide ranging is the cloak of Sultan Qaboo's reticence that his country has been described as the world's most secretive state. It would be quite impossible to divorce the man from the land which he has ruled for the past 33 years, so immediate is his authority, so absolute is his exercise of unfettered power. But who exactly is Qaboos bin Said Al Said? What of the journey without maps which led him to be complicit in the betrayal and overthrow of his own father? What role did he personally take in the Dhofar war of the 1970s, when he became the first Arab monarch to defeat the armed exponents of Marx and Lenin? And what of his hitherto secret connections with Margaret Thatcher and the incident that became known as the 'Thatcher necklace affair'?Defending Arabia
Aden Under British Rule; Fred Halliday, Arabia Without Sultans (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1974; New York, Vintage, 1975); Robert W., Stookey, South Yemen: A Marxist Republic in Arabia (Boulder, Co, Westview Press; London, Croom Helm, ...
Author: J.E. Peterson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317229995
Category: Social Science
Page: 288
View: 479
The defence of the Gulf has been a vital strategic concern for close on 100 years. The British first became involved in the Gulf to protect the sea routes to India and with the development of international air routes the Gulf became a crucial staging post. This book, first published in 1986, surveys the strategic issues in the defence of the Gulf from the earliest British involvement up to the Iraq-Iran war. It examines the British retreat from the Gulf and the imperial vestiges that were left behind. It considers the way in which American interests in the Gulf came to replace British interests and it analyses how American foreign policy has responded to this additional responsibility. The book also investigates the regional concerns of Gulf security and the intra-regional conflicts that have erupted in the Iraq-Iran war.Statebuilding and Counterinsurgency in Oman
... on Sultan Sa'id b. Taymur', Arabian Peninsula Background Note, No. ... Halliday, Arabia Without Sultans, pp.274–275. Rabi, Oman under Sa'id bin ... See: FO 1016/800, Consequences If Sultan of Muscat And Oman Dies Suddenly, 1968.
Author: James Worrall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781838609160
Category: History
Page: 336
View: 703
In the depths of the Cold War and in the wake of Britain's announcement of its intention to withdraw 'East of Suez' by the end of 1971, Britain was faced with the stark reality of a Marxist rebellion in the Dhofar province of Oman. 'State Building and Counter Insurgency in Oman' offers an exploration of the attempts by officials and politicians in Whitehall and the Gulf to reconcile attempts to protect national interests and create an effective, centralised Omani administration and security bodies, whilst maintaining the image of strategic withdrawal and the sovereign independence of Oman. This book thus provides vital information and analysis for students and researchers of Middle East History and Politics, the decline and end of empire and the policymaking processes at the heart of an imperial and military withdrawal.