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Title: Jordan
Condition: New
Subtitle: Living in the Crossfire
Author: Alan George
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1842774700
EAN: 9781842774700
ISBN: 9781842774700
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Date: 04/10/2005
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 skilful co-option of opponents rather than heavy-handed reliance on its secret police. What is daily life like? How do its parliamentary system and political parties work? How free are the media? What are the future prospects of this buffer 'state without a nation'?
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Release Year: 2005

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