(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Description
"An exclusive look inside a country that frequently resists scrutiny, this CNBC documentary provides a detailed analysis of Saudi Arabia's role, and future, as the world's largest oil producer. Focusing on the inner workings of the kingdom's government, as well as the influence and practices of corporate powerhouse Saudi Aramco, the program reveals economic predicaments faced by Saudi leaders and examines differing points of view concerning Aramco's...
Author
Description
"From the opening of a U.S. consulate in Dhahran in 1944 through the conclusion of his ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia in 1965, Parker T. Hart played a critical part in building the U.S.-Saudi security relationship, a key aspect of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East to this day. Drawing on his personal involvement in events as well as the documentary record, Hart provides fresh insights into early Saudi-U.S. diplomatic relations - from, Franklin D....
Author
Description
For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Since 9/11 this partnership has been sorely tested. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson shows why the partnership became so intimate and the problems that it spawned. This normally secretive relationship comes alive with stories of American diplomats heaped on the floor before the Saudi King--and a bizarre request for the Saudi government to subsidize Polish pork exports,...
Author
Description
"Events in the fall of 1973 made the American people suddenly aware of the importance of the Arab World to their well-being. The October War led to a brief but intense crisis with the Soviet Union, highlighted by a worldwide alert of American military forces, and a longer and more agonizing energy crunch created by the five-month oil embargo imposed by the Arab producers. People who had viewed the Middle East as a remote corner of the globe now realized...
Author
Description
A riveting portrait of one of the most enigmatic yet influential powerbrokers in America - Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. For the last two and a half decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have had a very special relationship - through war, oil crises, and global terrorism. At a time when understanding our friends is as important as knowing our enemies, understanding...
Description
Fareed Zakaria explores a country where women are property, music and movies, evil - until a new Crown Prince bring unimaginable freedoms. But there is a dark side - is Saudi Arabia's new regime guilty of murder? Fareed focuses on the deeply troubled U.S.-Saudi relationship, from 9/11 to the current crisis.
Author
Description
The perilous ramifications of the September 11th attacks on the United States are only now beginning to unfold. They will undoubtedly be felt for generations to come." Never before has an American president been so closely tied to a foreign power that harbors and supports our country's mortal enemies."
Author
Description
Monographic account of trends and forecasts for the 1980s concerning the foreign policy and political system of Saudi Arabia - examines political problems in the Middle East and world-wide, (incl. Role of Islam, role of USA and role of USSR), Saudi economic resources, armed forces and political power, and petroleum industrial policy, discusses internal problems involving economic and social development, political participation, minority groups, etc.,...
In ILL
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by San Antonio College Library can be requested from other ILL libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request