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Regions Middle East Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of Saudi Arabia, including politics under Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi foreign policy, oil and energy politics, human rights issues, and more.

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How Saudi Arabia Sees the World

MBS’s Vision of a New Nonaligned Movement

Karen E. Young

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How China Became a Peacemaker in the Middle East

Trita Parsi, Khalid Aljabri

The Kingdom and the Power

F. Gregory Gause III

How Saudi Arabia Sees the World

The Saudis Need a Reality Check

Richard Blumenthal, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

The True Costs of Biden’s Saudi Visit

Agnès Callamard

America’s New Realism in the Middle East

F. Gregory Gause III

Go Big in Saudi Arabia

Steven A. Cook, Martin Indyk

Bowing to the Prince

Dalia Dassa Kaye

Mohammed bin Salman: The Icarus of Saudi Arabia?

America and Saudi Arabia Are Stuck With Each Other

Yasmine Farouk, Andrew Leber

The MBS Economy

Saudi Arabia’s Other Yemen War

How Iran and Saudi Arabia Can Together Bring Peace to the Middle East

Vali Nasr, Maria Fantappie

The United States Is the Last Check on MBS’s Power

F. Gregory Gause III

The Only Stable Saudi Arabia Is a Democratic Saudi Arabia

Madawi al-Rasheed

The Saudi Test Case

The Real Regional Problem With the Iran Deal

Stability in the Middle East Requires More Than a Deal With Iran

Graveyard of the Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia

The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia

The Only Way Out of the Middle East Is Through It

The Pandemic Tips the Balance Between Mosque and State

Geneive Abdo, Nourhan Elnahla

The End of Saudi Arabia’s Ambitions

F. Gregory Gause III

What Annexation Would Really Mean for Middle East Peace

Aaron David Miller

America’s Opportunity in the Middle East

Daniel Benaim, Jake Sullivan

The Coronavirus Threatens Saudi Arabia’s Global Ambitions

Krithika Varagur

The Coronavirus Is Exacerbating Sectarian Tensions in the Middle East

Toby Matthiesen

Can Oman’s New Leader Uphold Sultan Qaboos’s Peaceful Legacy?

Nikita Lalwani, Josh Rubin, Sam Winter-Levy

The Chastened Kingdom

Peace Is Possible in Yemen

April Longley Alley, Peter Salisbury

Iran, the Unitary State

Afshon Ostovar, Ariane M. Tabatabai

Friends With Caveats

Yoel Guzansky, Daniel B. Shapiro

A Real Plan to End the War in Yemen

Michael Knights, Kenneth M. Pollack, Barbara F. Walter

The New Saudi Diaspora

Madawi al-Rasheed

Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Struggle for Supremacy

Why the U.S. Should Stay Out of Saudi Politics

F. Gregory Gause III

Why the U.S. Can’t Control MBS

Madawi al-Rasheed

Saudi Arabia’s Empty Oil Threats

Andrew Miller, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh

What’s at Stake for Erdogan in the Khashoggi Affair?

Not His Father’s Saudi Arabia

Daniel Benjamin

Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia

The Next Arab Uprising

Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power

Pre-release: Understanding the Schemes and Dreams of Saudi Arabia’s Next King

Fresh Prince

F. Gregory Gause III

Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States Since FDR

Why India Straddles the Iranian-Saudi Divide, in Foreign Affairs

India and the Iranian-Saudi Divide

Bharath Gopalaswamy, Amir Handjani

Don’t Let the Saudis Destabilize Lebanon

Is the Saudi Purge Really About Corruption?

Andrew Leber, Christopher Carothers

A Purge in Riyadh

Toby Matthiesen

What Hariri’s Resignation Means for Lebanon

Saudi Arabia’s Security Alliances

Will Russian-Saudi Relations Continue to Improve?

Anna Borshchevskaya

Trump, Trade, and the Open Skies

How Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up in Iraq

Firas Maksad, Kenneth M. Pollack

Don’t Mind the Gulf

Aaron David Miller, Richard Sokolsky

Russia’s Middle East Energy Diplomacy

James Henderson, Ahmed Mehdi

Saudi Arabia’s Renewables Revolution

Sagatom Saha, David Livingston

Why Trump and Francis Diverge on Saudi Arabia

Trump Goes to Saudi Arabia

Why Trump Will Disappoint the Saudis

Yoel Guzansky, Sigurd Neubauer

Trump and Saudi Arabia

Madawi al-Rasheed

Saudi Arabia’s Failed Oil War

Nicholas Borroz, Brendan Meighan

Why King Salman Went to Asia

Gerald M. Feierstein

Can Mohamed bin Salman Reshape Saudi Arabia?

The Gulf Also Rises

Kingdom Coming

Nicholas Krohley, Luke Bencie

Saudi Arabia and Iran Face Off in Afghanistan

Ariane M. Tabatabai

حرّاس التمييز بين الجنسين

Guardians of the Gender Gap

The Future of U.S.-Saudi Relations

F. Gregory Gause III

Keeping Iran and Saudi Arabia From War

Ibrahim Fraihat

Saudi Arabia's Oil Strategy in a Time of Glut

The Saudi Kingdom: Between the Jihadi Hammer and the Iranian Anvil

Clinton, Trump, and Riyadh

Saudi Arabia Needs a Crisis

Saudi Arabia's Modern Islamists

Madawi al-Rasheed

Power Play

Greg Everett, N. Jordan Jameson

Swing State

Pakistan's Game

Saudi Arabia and Iran's Forever Fight

Aaron David Miller, Jason Brodsky

Saudi Arabia's Desperate Measures

Time to Get Tough on Saudi Arabia

Richard Sokolsky

Saudi Arabia's Plan in Syria

Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11

A Nuclear Nile

Sigurd Neubauer, Yoel Guzansky

Beyond Break-Even Prices

Down, But Not Out

Last Alliance Standing

Yoel Guzansky, Ofir Winter

The Other Liquid Gold

Selim Can Sazak, Lauren R. Sukin

Islam in Saudi Arabia

Anatomy of a Bombing

Bridging the Gulf in the Gulf

Frederic Wehrey, Richard Sokolsky

Defining the Relationship

Nuclear Power to the People

Bennett Ramberg

Obama's Arab Security Strategy

A Tale of Two Sadats

Gabriel Scheinmann

Iran’s Game in Yemen

Bleeding in Yemen

Philippe Bolopion, Belkis Wille

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