Kéchichian received his 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).[citation needed] In the summer of 1989, he was a
Hoover Fellow at
Stanford University (under the U.S. State Department Title VIII Program). Between 1990 and 1996, he labored at the Santa Monica-based
RAND Corporation as an Associate Political Scientist, and was a lecturer at the
University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).[citation needed]
Between 1998 and 2001, Kéchichian was a fellow at UCLA’s Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, where he held a
Smith Richardson Foundation grant (1998-1999) to compose Succession in Saudi Arabia (New York: Palgrave [2001]) and
Beirut and
London: Dar Al Saqi, 2002, 2003 [2nd ed] (for the
Arabic translation)]. He published Political Participation and Stability in the Sultanate of Oman,
Dubai: Gulf Research Center, 2005, Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy (
Santa Monica:
RAND [1995]), and edited A Century in Thirty Years: Shaykh
Zayed and the United Arab Emirates (
Washington, D.C.: The Middle East Policy Council [2000]), as well as Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States (New York: Palgrave [2001]). In 2003, he co-authored, with R. Hrair Dekmejian at
USC, The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership (London: Saqi Books), which includes a full translation of the Sulwan al-Muta` by Muhammad Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli.[citation needed]
In 2008, he published two studies, Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies (Boulder, Colorado:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, and Beirut: Riyad al-Rayyes Books, 2012—in 2 volumes for the Arabic translation]), and Faysal: Saudi Arabia’s King for All SeasonsGainesville, Florida:
University Press of Florida and
Beirut: Dar al-‘Arabiyyah lil-Mawsu‘at, 2012].[citation needed] His newest book is Legal and Political Reforms in Sa‘udi Arabia, published by Routledge in December 2012. He published a companion volume to
Faysal on ‘Iffat Al Thunayan: An Arabian Queen (London:
Sussex Academic Press, 2014).[1]
Works
From Alliance to Union, Sine loco : Sussex Academic Press, 2016 (upcoming, August?)
“The Enduring Saudi Oil Power,” in Robert E. Looney, ed, Handbook of Oil Politics, London and New York:
Routledge, 2012, pp. 284–294.
The Sultanate of Oman and the US, in Robert E. Looney, ed, Handbook of US-Middle East Relations: Formative Factors and Regional Perspectives,
London and
New York City:
Routledge, 2009, pp. 417–433.