The late King Faisal was born in Riyadh in 1905/6, several years after his father Abdulaziz Ibn Saud had recaptured it from Ibn Rashid. The thirteen contributions that make up this book present differing aspects of the modernisation process that took place in Saudi Arabia during the era of King Faisal.
Here is a country that is about one-fourth the area of Europe, one-third the size of the United States of America, yet what is known about it is out of all proportion to what is unknown. We are beginning to know more, comparatively speaking, about the Arctic and Antarctic regions than we do about most of Arabia.
Saudi Arabia: A case study in development is a completely revised and updated edition that includes new sections namely, Focus on Achieving the Three Five Year Plan, Strategy Five Fourth Ventilation Plan - National Industry - Efforts and Evaluation, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Policies and Projects, Higher education, Oil Pricing, New Ministry Organizational Chart.