Joseph A. Kéchichian


Joseph Albert Kéchichian is a political scientist.

Biography

Kéchichian received his doctorate in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1985, where he also taught, and assumed the assistant deanship in international studies. In the summer of 1989, he was a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University. Between 1990 and 1996, he labored at the Santa Monica-based RAND Corporation as an Associate Political Scientist, and was a lecturer at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Between 1998 and 2001, Kéchichian was a fellow at UCLA’s Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, where he held a Smith Richardson Foundation grant to compose Succession in Saudi Arabia and Beirut and London: Dar Al Saqi, 2002, 2003 ]. He published Political Participation and Stability in the Sultanate of Oman, Dubai: Gulf Research Center, 2005, Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy, and edited A Century in Thirty Years: Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States. In 2003, he co-authored, with R. Hrair Dekmejian at USC, The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership, which includes a full translation of the Sulwan al-Muta` by Muhammad Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli.
In 2008, he published two studies, Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies, and Faysal: Saudi Arabia’s King for All Seasons Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida and Beirut: Dar al-‘Arabiyyah lil-Mawsu‘at, 2012]. His newest book is Legal and Political Reforms in Sa‘udi Arabia, published by Routledge in December 2012. He published a companion volume to Faysal on ‘Iffat Al Thunayan: An Arabian Queen.

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