Middle East monarchies : the challenge of modernity / edited by Joseph Kostiner.

Monarchy in the Middle East / Bernard Lewis -- Post-Ottoman Arab monarchies: old bottles, new labels? / Ami Ayalon -- Why did Arab monarchies fall? An analysis of old and new explanations / Bruce Maddy-Weitzman -- Dynasts and nationalists: why monarchies survive / Lisa Anderson -- Patterns of monarchy in the Middle East / Gabriel Ben-Dor -- The Jordanian monarchy: the Hashemite success story / Asher Susser -- The Moroccan monarchy: political system in quest of a new equilibrium / Remy Leveau -- State-formation and the Saudi monarchy / Joseph Kostiner and Joshua Teitelbaum -- The Kuwaiti royal family in the postliberation period: reinstitutionalizing the "first among equals" system in Kuwait / Uzi Rabi -- The persistence of monarchy in the Arabian peninsula: a comparative analysis /F. Gregory Gause III -- The throne in the Sultanate of Oman / Joseph A. Kiechichian -- The Persian monarchy and the Islamic Republic / David Menashri -- Gulf Monarchies as rentier states: the nationalism policies of the labor force