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Saudi Arabia's "Genius" Crown Prince

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

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The Origins of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

King Al-Grazies had an enormous number of sons, right? Yes. And he set things up so that the inheritance of his royal throne would not just go from father to son,. But rather in a kind of somewhat unusual model where it went to one of his older sons and then down through the brothers. I've always been curious about this. How do they come up with this mechanism of designating errors? It can be changed now. We're coming to the revolution any moment now.

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