Saudi Arabia

United States-Saudi Transactional Diplomacy and the Synergy of Saudi Mining
United States-Saudi diplomacy is increasingly seeming to take on a transactional flavor, especially with regards to the Saudi mining industry. The Trump administration has established that energy dominance is a...

OPEC+ Finally Grasps the Nettle
OPEC+ finally grasps the nettle and is finally raising output quotas for a subset of participants. It has been a long time coming. OPEC+ affirmed on March 3 that it...

Riyadh Is Interested in Acquiring MQ-9 UAVs
The MQ-9 Reaper UAV has played an important role in the U.S. Air Force for nearly two decades.

Trump’s Abraham Accords vs. Biden’s Esau Accords
In his first term, Donald Trump shepherded four Arab states into the Abraham Accords. These deals saw these states recognize Israel and establish relations with it. Trump’s accords took their...

Have the Houthis Made a Strategic Blunder?
Yemen’s Houthis may be on a high from their success in keeping Israelis awake at night with their sporadic missile launches targeting the country’s center of gravity. Dealing with this...

China and Saudi Arabia: A Delicate Balancing Act
Even as China continues to foster closer relations with Iran and its regional proxies—notably the Houthis in Yemen—it isn’t doing so at the stake of its relationship with Saudi Arabia or...

Saudi Arabia to Purchase 100 Turkish Kaan Fifth-Generation Warplanes
Turkey under the Islamist rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is back as a world power. What’s more, if the decades of rhetoric from Erdogan’s Islamist political party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), is...

Israel And Donald Trump 2.0: Rerunning Trump 1.0?
It wasn’t at all surprising that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first foreign leaders to congratulate Donald Trump on his election win, calling it a “huge...

OPEC+ Has Painted Itself into a Corner
OPEC+ energy ministers are engaged in another round of recriminations and handwringing, having delayed their scheduled meeting from December 1 to December 5 to give them more time to argue....

Donald Trump’s Saudi Opportunity
There is a very real enthusiasm in Saudi Arabia for the second Trump administration and the possible renewal of American conservatism. The new Administration should take the opportunity to reset...

What Does Donald Trump 2.0 Mean for the Middle East?
By any standard of measurement, Joe Biden’s Middle East policy was a failure. A cascade of misjudgments and misapprehensions has caused the region to be dangerous and unstable. All this...

Why the Arab Gulf States Won’t Help Israel
Before Israel struck Iran last weekend in response to Iran’s October 1 missile barrage, the Islamic Republic turned to a group of unlikely partners to reduce the scope of an...