8vo. 92 pp., publisher’s original wrappers, notes, copy in mint condition, Adelphi Paper No: 324, International Institute For Strategic Studies, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Synopsis

This paper assesses how leadership stability in the Arab world has been sustained since the 1970s. It describes its costs in terms of military capability, and looks at the prospects for change across the region as the 1990s generation of ageing leaders gives way to the next.