TY - BOOK AU - Ottaway,David B. TI - Mohammed bin Salman: The Icarus of Saudi Arabia? SN - 9781626379787 PY - 2022///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. The Conundrums of Saudi Arabia --; 2. Mohammed bin Salman’s Meteoric Rise to Power --; Part 1 The Old Order Crumbles --; 3. Upending the House of Saud --; 4. King Abdullah: The Surprise Reformer --; 5. King Salman: The Daedalus of Saudi Arabia --; Part 2 The New Saudi Arabia --; 6. The Kingdom of Mohammed bin Salman --; 7. The Fourth Industrial Revolution --; 8. “Who Will Rid Me of This Troublesome Journalist?” --; 9. The Quest for Great Power Status --; 10. The Saudi-US Relationship: Too Damaged to Repair? --; Part 3 Conclusion --; 11. Prospects for Reform . . . and Repression --; A Brief Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access N2 - Mohammed bin Salman. A monarch-to-be without scruples? Or a visionary seeking a path to global power? A social reformer determined to bring his country into the twenty-first century? Or just another brutal dictator? A leader on the road to greatness, or one destined to follow in the footsteps of Icarus? Veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent David Ottaway draws on more than a half-century of observation and reporting to shed light on these conundrums at the heart of any attempt to understand Saudi Arabia—and the man who is poised to rule the country for decades to come UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685851057 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685851057 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685851057/original ER -