Jordan
Subtitle: living in the crossfire
By: Alan George.
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Jordan -- Politics and government
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.