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Overview
Saudi Arabia and Britain enjoyed a special relationship in the early 1940s, but by the last year of King Ibn Saud's reign (1953) these two states' relations had deteriorated into severe conflict. The chapters of this book endeavour to answer a variety of questions that affected the main course of Saudi-British relations, such as Saudi-US relations, the security concept, the Saudi-Hashemite problem and the frontier conflict. Based primarily on archival documents, this original and comprehensive study is the first book to cover Saudi-British relations between 1939 and 1953 and to explore the matter in the depth it deserves. In his investigations, Dr. Shafi Aldamer implements a framework that narrows the usual gap between academic theories and the reality of politicians' and diplomats' practices in the field of international politics.Synopsis
Aldamer (political science and international relations, King Fahd U. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia) presents a diplomatic history of the deterioration of relations between Britain and the Saudi monarchy between the 1930s and the 1950s. Much of the narrative revolves around Saudi perceptions of perfidious British dealings related to the borders and activities of actual or potential rival Arab states. Unsurprisingly, another major part of the story is the rising role of the United States in the Mideast following World War II. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR