Contemporary Middle East: Conflicts, Crisis, and Challenges

17/10 and 31/10 Week 4 and 5 Saudi Arabia

Reading

Obligatory:

AL-RASHEED, Madawi. The son king: reform and repression in Saudi Arabia. London: Hurst & Company, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78738-379-1.  Chapter 7 Young and Restless 271-336, Future 323-335

MARSHALL, Tim, 2021. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World. Simon & Schuster UK. ISBN 978-1783965373. Chapter 3 Saudi Arabia

HAMID, Shadi a MCCANTS, William Faizi (ed.). Rethinking political Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, [2017]. ISBN 978-0-19-064919-7.

Recommended:

AL-RASHEED, Madawi. A history of Saudi Arabia. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-76128-4. chapters 8 a 9 p. 211-277

HUBBARD, Ben, 2021. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 9780008340582.

LOONEY, Robert E., ed. 
Handbook of transitions to energy and climate security. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. Routledge international handbooks. ISBN 978-1-85743-745-4. (11 pages)