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A review by hanspeterebech
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book' by Justin Scheck, Bradley Hope
5.0
When you have been living in a liberal and secular democracy all your life, then is is hard to imagine what it is like to live in a country like Saudi Arabia.
The book doesn't quite answer that question, but it does illustrate how dysfunctional, ineffective and unproductive a religiously based autocracy and kleptocracy is.
An ambition of using the proceeds from oil to create a modern base for the SA society makes absolutely sense, but I don't believe the political structure of Saudi Arabia is capable of delivering.
The book doesn't quite answer that question, but it does illustrate how dysfunctional, ineffective and unproductive a religiously based autocracy and kleptocracy is.
An ambition of using the proceeds from oil to create a modern base for the SA society makes absolutely sense, but I don't believe the political structure of Saudi Arabia is capable of delivering.