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2010
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Nabil Mouline, « Pouvoir et transition générationnelle en Arabie Saoudite », Critique internationale, ID : 10670/1.k0nrnk
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Power and Generational Transition in Saudi Arabia The question of political succession is the Achilles’ heel of the Saudi monarchy. Since its appearance in the 19th-century, the dynasty has more or less successfully endeavored to resolve this problem, which is mainly due to a horizontal mode of transmitting and distributing power inspired by the system of local kinship. The phases of generational transition systematically coincide with periods of crisis in the course of which each lineage attempts to monopolize power. In order to define the problem of succession in Saudi Arabia – a model of patrimonial royalty – it must be set in historical and political context. ■