Table of Contents

I. Introduction: A Conceptual Framework.- I The Political Environment.- II. The Historical Background.- III. The Communal Structure of Politics.- IV. Economic and Demographic Conditions.- II The Changing Structure of Society.- V. Patriarchal Oligarchy.- VI. Palace Politics Versus Constitutionalism (1950–1953).- III External Factors in Political Development.- VII. From The Baghdad Pact to The Eisenhower Doctrine (1954–57).- VIII. Jordan, The Arab Union, And The United Arab Republic.- IX. The Search for Stability, 1959–1965.- X. Summary and Conclusions.