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" Jordan : "
Alan George.
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BL
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995176
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b749546
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| Main Entry
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George, Alan,1949-
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Jordan : : living in the crossfire /\ Alan George.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Zed Books ;New York :: Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages) :: illustrations
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1281216062
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: 1848131526
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: 184813715X
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: 9781281216069
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: 9781848131521
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: 9781848137158
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1842774700
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1842774719
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9781842774700
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9781842774717
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-253) and index.
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| Contents
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Chronology -- Vital statistics -- "Fulfilling our promises" : the creation of Jordan -- "Neither democrat nor demagogue" : Jordan under King Hussain -- "Bread before freedom" : Jordan under King Abdullah II -- Abdullah bin al-Hussain : king -- Barjas al-Hadid : tribal shaikh -- Rajai Khoury : businessman -- Abd al-Fatah al-Bustani : dentist -- Abu Muhammad : taxi driver -- Awad ash-Shubaiki : farmer -- Anisa Salim : refugee -- The "stratified elite" : the royal family and the royal court -- "Strengthening the moderate majority" : parliament and parties -- "The basis of governance" : the legal system -- "The sky's the limit" : the media -- "Investing in a mobile resource" : higher education -- Visions and realities : the future.
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Jordan has played a bigger role in Middle Eastern affairs than its size and economy might warrant, due to its huge Palestinian population, its strategic location between Israel, the West Bank, Syria and Iraq, and its uniquely close relationship with successive British and US administrations. Drawing on numerous visits to the country and interviews with a diversity of people from King Abdullah down, Alan George describes how its reasonably stable monarchical system, unlike that in most Arab countries, has allowed the halting development of civil society and maintained control through the skilfu.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Politics and government
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Jordan, Politics and government.
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Jordan.
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| Dewey Classification
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956.9504/4
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DS154.G46 2005eb
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