Jean-François Seznec, adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute and Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, is the author of The Financial Markets of the Persian Gulf (1987) and a founding member and managing partner of the Lafayette Group LLC, an investment company in Annapolis, Maryland.
October 2002, Volume 13, Issue 4
Saudi Arabia would seem to exemplify full-blown authoritarianism. Yet there are trends pushing the country toward more open politics.
