The purpose of this study is to identify King Hussein's belief system, or operational code as it is called by George and Holsti, and to test its influence on foreign policymaking in Jordan. The research has three related goals: to identify King Hussein's operational code through analysis of his writings and speeches during the period between 1967 and 1980, to review four major foreign policy decisions in an attempt to understand the factors affecting the decision making process in Jordan, and to analyze these decisions to ascertain the impact of the king's personality and beliefs on them in order to discover whether the operational code construct can be used to predict or explain Jordan's foreign policy behavior.

約旦哈什米王國曾為奧圖曼土耳其帝國的一部份，建國至今五十餘年，哈什米王族為先知穆罕默德的後代。約旦對外政策深受領導人風格、其他大國態度、地緣因素以及約旦本身國內因素所影響。本文乃針對在以色列與阿拉伯的和平衝突情勢，如何影響約旦的對外政策走向加以分析，並探討約旦在中東和平進程裡所扮演的角色。全文共分六章十九節，緒論部分陳述本文之研究動機、目的、方法與限制。本論部分就一九八０年代、波斯灣戰爭、一九九０年代，以及胡笙國王去世後的約旦外交政策之變化加以敘述與分析，並將研究心得整理、分析並條列於結論之中。 / The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been built since 1950, this place was originally a part of Ottoman Empire, and the Hashemite royal family is descends from Prophet Mohammed. Jordan’s foreign policy was affected by the characteristic of her leadership, attitude from powerful states, and domestic problem. This thesis focuses on Jordan’s foreign policy, which is effect to the relationship between Israel and the Arab states, analyzing Jordan’s role in the Middle East peace process. There are totally 6 chapters, which are composed of 19 sections. I describe my ambition, goals, methods and limitation of this study before the main thesis. In the main thesis, I describe and analyze the changes of Jordan’s foreign policy during 1980s, the period during Gulf War, the peace process in 1990s, and the era after King Hussein died. In the last chapter, comments and suggestions are given together with the conclusion.

This thesis offers a microcosmic insight into Britain's transition toward a world system without an Empire by exploring the life of the Anglo-Jordan Treaty (1946-57) via the prism of the British financed Jordanian Army, also known as the Arab Legion, and its British commander, Glubb Pasha. In so doing it puts the state of the relationship down to a system of mutual dependence. Britain's withdrawal from Jordan has primarily been linked either to the success of Arab nationalism or the loss of British will. By examining the Treaty relationship from construction to termination this thesis posits that it is imprudent to push any single factor too deeply, but identifies a shift in the balance of mutual dependence, caused by the changing geopolitical climate, as the driving force. A subsidiary aspect of this thesis concerns the partition of Palestine. The Arab Legion was the most important Arab army during the 1948 War. Based on unprecedented access to Glubb's private papers 'the most significant new documents to emerge since the opening of the official western archives in the late 1970s' this thesis provides the most accurate portrayal of the Arab Legion's conduct yet achievable. In so doing it reconciles inconsistencies within the controversial 'collusion' debate. It negates the revisionist argument that a firm Hashemite-Zionist agreement existed, but corroborates the notion that Britain approved the Arab Legion's use to implement an alternative form of partition to that proposed by the UN. It thus supports the revisionist argument that pre-war negotiations helped shape the 1948 War, but explains the Arab Legion's adherence to this secret scheme by emphasising Glubb's (limited) autonomy. Moreover, it reveals further details concerning the divisions within the Arab coalition, which further debunks the traditional David (Israel) versus Goliath (Arab coalition) portrayal of the conflict.

The aim of this master thesis is to analyze political regime of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and to find out some possible effects, which could have had an influence on its stability and survival in the last 25 years. The Jordanian political regime had gone through several crises in the examined years. Not only did it survive all of them but also became stronger. Which factors caused the survival of the regime? In the first part of the thesis we typologize the regime from three possible perspectives (institutional, formalistic and legitimation). The second part deals with an analysis of factors, which enable the survival of Jordanian political regime. The emphasis is given on the role of institutions.