Figures Tables, and Charts xi -- A Note on Titles, Names, and Conventions xvii -- 2 The Emergence of Dynastic Monarchy and the Causes of Its Persistence 21 -- 4 The Dynasties: The Al Sabah and the Al Saud 67 -- 5 The Dynasties: The Al Thani, Al Khalifa, Al Nahayan, Al Maktum, and Al Said 109 -- 6 Strategies of Regime and Opposition in the Dynastic Monarchies 157 -- 7 Libya and Afghanistan 183 -- 8 Five Nondynastic Monarchies 209 -- 9 Dynastic Monarchism and the Persistence of Hereditary Rule 235 -- 10 The Theory of the Rentier State and Constitutional Monarchy in the Middle East 255
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index