Jill Ann Crystal
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. Author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf and others.
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Oman, Gulf Arab country at the confluence of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. It is ruled by the Āl Bū Saʿīd dynasty, whose Muscat-based sultanate emerged in the 18th century as one of the Indian Ocean’s principal maritime powers. In the first half of the 19th century the dynasty controlled the…
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