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Book Review: Legal and Political Reforms in Saudi Arabia
The second chapter focuses on the national dialogues, which were mechanisms established by King (Abd Allah in 2003 to address a specific set of sensitive issues with intrinsically destabilizing potential: the rise of extremism, national unity, women's rights, youth expectations, interaction at different levels with other world cultures, education, employment, and health. The author notes that after 9/11, U.S. policymakers were much less inclined than before to concentrate on alleviating the severe socioeconomic problems that confronted the kingdom, such as \"rising unemployment and poverty in a context of galloping population growth, assuming that they were far less important than the urgent threat of extremism\" (pp. 203-4). Organizing the book around the analytical construct of \"will to power\"--to which the author alludes throughout the study but neither fully explains nor puts into context--would have provided much-needed structure and coherence to a complex subject such as legal and political reform in Saudi Arabia.
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