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Difficult choices: Jordan occupies stony ground, sandwiched as it is between the two conflict zones of Iraq and the Occupied Territories. But decades of adroit political manoeuvring by Amman's rulers have ensured considerable political and economic support from abroad. (MEED Middle East Economic Digest)

Rulers and residents: British relations with the Aden Protectorate, 1937-59. (Middle Eastern Studies)

Sons Ready to Rule a New Arab World.(inexperienced young rulers) (Insight on the News)

Sharjah Deputy Ruler inaugurates Sharjah Business Forum 2011. (CPI Financial)

Kim defiant: sanctions won't make North Korea's ruler cuddly. They are still worth imposing. (Kim Il Sung; nuclear threat in North Korea) (The Economist (US))

Nero: cruel and crazy ambition: how a once-noble line of Roman rulers came to a savage end.(World History) (Junior Scholastic)

Zia's next triumph. (Pakistan ruler General Zia ul Haq) (The Economist (US))

Qatar: Abrupt Change of Rulers in Qatar Has a Precedent (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs)

Ruler and state in precarious health; Ramshackle Guinea.(Guinea's ailing president)(President Lansana Conte is in ill health at a time when Guinea is president of the UN SecurityCouncil) (The Economist (US))

Hadrian and the limits of empire: the emperor Hadrian presided over the Roman empire at its height, defined its borders and was one of the most cultured rulers of the ancient world. Neil Faulkner revisits his legacy, as the British Museum opens a major exhibition on his life and times. (History Today)