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, ... First published in the 1970s, this work retains its vitality as it analyses the Arabian Peninsula and Iran within the global context of western post-colonial strategy and the political economy of oil in an ambitious, encompassing and entertaining manner.