Joseph Albert Kéchichian (, born March 15, 1954) is a

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Biography

Kéchichian received his doctorate in Foreign Affairs from the

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in 1985, where he also taught (1986-1988), and assumed the assistant deanship in international studies (1988-1989). In the summer of 1989, he was a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University (under the U.S. State Department Title VIII Program). Between 1990 and 1996, he labored at the Santa Monica-based RAND Corporation as an Associate Political Scientist, and was a lecturer at the

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(UCLA). Between 1998 and 2001, Kéchichian was a fellow at UCLA’s Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, where he held a

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grant (1998-1999) to compose ''Succession in Saudi Arabia'' (New York: Palgrave

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: Dar Al Saqi, 2002, 2003 nd ed(for the

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translation)]. He published ''Political Participation and Stability in the Sultanate of Oman'',

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: Gulf Research Center, 2005, ''Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy'' (

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, and edited ''A Century in Thirty Years: Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates'' (

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: The Middle East Policy Council

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, as well as ''Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States'' (New York: Palgrave

. In 2003, he co-authored, with R. Hrair Dekmejian at USC, ''The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership'' (London: Saqi Books), which includes a full translation of the Sulwan al-Muta` by Muhammad Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli. In 2008, he published two studies, ''Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies'' (Boulder, Colorado:

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, and Beirut: Riyad al-Rayyes Books, 2012—in 2 volumes for the Arabic translation]), and ''Faysal: Saudi Arabia’s King for All Seasons'' Gainesville, Florida:

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: Dar al-‘Arabiyyah lil-Mawsu‘at, 2012]. His newest book is ''Legal and Political Reforms in Sa‘udi Arabia'', published by Routledge in December 2012. He published a companion volume to Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Faysal on ''‘Iffat Al Thunayan: An Arabian Queen'' (London: Sussex Academic Press, 2014).

Works

*''From Alliance to Union,'' Sine loco : Sussex Academic Press, 2016 (upcoming, August?) *''Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies,'' Boulder, Colorado:

, 2008, *''Faysal: Saudi Arabia's King for All Seasons'', Gainesville, Florida:

, 2008, *''Political Participation and Stability in the Sultanate of Oman'',

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, 2005 *''The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership,''

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: Saqi Books, 2003, *''Succession in Saudi Arabia'',

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, 1995, “The Enduring Saudi Oil Power,” in Robert E. Looney, ed, Handbook of Oil Politics, London and New York:

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, 2012, pp. 284–294. *''The Sultanate of Oman and the US, in Robert E. Looney, ed, Handbook of US-Middle East Relations: Formative Factors and Regional Perspectives'',

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, 2009, pp. 417–433. *''Reforming the Judiciary in Saudi Arabia'', in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1979-2009: Evolution of a Pivotal State, A Special Edition of Viewpoints,

: The Middle East Institute, 2009, at http://www.mei.edu/Publications/WebPublications/Viewpoints/ViewpointsArchive/tabid/541/ctl/Detail/mid/1623/xmid/784/xmfid/11/Default.aspx *''Refining the Saudi ‘Will to Power’'', Perspectives 003, National University of Singapore

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, 2009, pp 1–16 at http://www.mei.nus.edu.sg/publications/MEI%20Perspectives%20003-Final.pdf *''Affirming the Saudi Will to Power: Domestic Challenges to King `Abdullah'',

Policy Brief, Number 16 (June 2008), pp. 1-9 at https://web.archive.org/web/20090503081050/http://www.mideasti.org/policy-brief/affirming-saudi-will-power-domestic-challenges-king-%E2%80%98abdullah *''Can Conservative Arab Gulf Monarchies Endure a Fourth War in the Persian Gulf'',

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, 61:2 (Spring 2007), pp. 283-306. *''Extremism & Opposition Movements on the Arabian Peninsula'', ORF Studies in Muslim Societies-V,

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, 2006, pp. 1-55. *''Democratization in Gulf Monarchies: A New Challenge to the GCC'',

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11:4 (Winter 2004), pp. 37-57. *''Testing the Saudi ‘Will to Power:’ Challenges Confronting Prince Abdallah'',

10:4 (Winter 2003), pp. 100–115. *''The Burden of Saudi Arabia'' eview Article

57:3, (Summer 2003), pp. 492–497. *''The Throne in the Sultanate of Oman'', in Joseph Kostiner (ed.), Middle Eastern Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity, Boulder, Colorado and

, 2000, pp. 187–211. *''Saudi Arabia’s Will to Power'',

7:2 (February 2000), pp. 47–60. *''Trends in Saudi National Security'',

, 53:2 (spring 1999), pp. 232–53.

Editor

*''A Century in Thirty Years: Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates'',

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, 2000, *''Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States'',

: Palgrave, 2001,

References

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