Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note on Transliteration and Interviews ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. The Argument and the Cases 1
6. 2. Coalitions, State-Building, and Geopolitical Mediation 21
7. 3. Conflict and Compromise in Kuwait 45
8. 4. Inclusion and Stability in a Populist Autocracy 69
9. 5. Cliency and Coercion in Iran 98
10. 6. Exclusionary Politics and the Revolutionary End 124
11. 7. A Conflict Interrupted in Jordan 154
12. 8. Recurrent Tensions and Tenuous Survival Under Hashemite Rule 181
13. 9. The Geopolitical Origins of Durable Political Order 209
14. Notes 219
15. Bibliography 257
16. Index 285