 | Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade -- Government policy -- Saudi Arabia; Economic development -- Political aspects -- Saudi Arabia; Bureaucracy -- Saudi Arabia; Patron and client -- Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia -- Economic policy; Saudi Arabia -- Politics and gov; In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state. Steffen Hertog is Kuwait Professor at Sciences Po Paris and Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at the University of Durham. |
