Joseph A. Kechichian
CEO
Kechichian and Associates LLC
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10590 Wilshire Blvd., Apt. 1704
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(t) 310-446-0249
(f) 310-446-0239
joegcc@aol.com
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Areas of Expertise
Gulf, UAE
Dr. Kechichian received a doctorate in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1985, where he also taught (1986-1988), and assumed the assistant deanship in international studies (1988-1989). In the summer of 1989, Dr. Kechichian was a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University. Dr. Kechichian was an Associate Political Scientist at the Santa Monica-based RAND Corporation, and a lecturer at the University of California in Los Angeles (1990-1996), he was a fellow at UCLA's Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Easter Studies, where he held a Smith Richardson Foundation grant (1998-1999) to compose Succession in Saudi Arabia, (2001). Dr. Kechichian published Political Participation and Stability in the Sultanate of Oman (2005), Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy (1995), and edited A Century in Thirty Years: Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates (2000), as well as Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States (2001). In 2003, he co-authored The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership, that includes a full translation of the Sulwan al-Muta by Muhammad Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli. He has just completed two new volumes on Saudi Arabia: A King for All Seasons: Saudi Arabia Under Faysal and Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies.
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