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106712
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2011.
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THE SAUDI royal family is afraid. Very, very afraid. A crisis of leadership is brewing. The king is ailing and his successor, Crown Prince Sultan, is in even worse health. Their hard-line brother, Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, is set to take the throne. One of the last absolute monarchies, the Saudi family seems to represent all that the Arab Spring is fighting against: closed societies with unequal wealth distribution; repressed minorities living within manufactured boundaries; strong Islamist sympathies across its lands; a latent Sunni-Shia power struggle embedded in the country's fabric-not to mention a string of surrounding states struggling to stave off revolutions that could easily have a contagion effect.
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ID:
124751
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2013.
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For a long time the conventional wisdom in Middle Eastern Studies has been that oil and regional security constituted the basis of relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Riyadh would ensure adequate supplies at reasonable prices, and in return, Washington would guarantee the Kingdom's security against regional threats. In recent years, the two nations' energy landscapes have changed dramatically. The United States is projected to become less dependent on foreign energy sources, while Saudi Arabia has allocated substantial resources to diversify its energy mix, utilize alternative energy, and reduce consumption. This article examines the recent Saudi efforts to develop nuclear power and renewable resources; and also provides a preliminary assessment of potential strategic implications of these efforts for US-Saudi relations.
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100135
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ID:
129379
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173542
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A continuity in international relations and global security has been the prevalence of variables and determinants. Variables are intrinsic and dynamic, while determinants are central and reveal a relative flexibility when political and economic considerations mutate.
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095606
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115875
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108523
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156628
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This article argues that the 1991 Gulf War had a deep transformative effect on
Saudi Arabia. It aims to analyze the extent to which this war brought about major ideological
changes to a society seemingly deemed unchangeable. Through the study of three
Saudi novels which drew on this war as a source of creative and political inspiration, this
study brings to life Saudi people’s discussions, dilemmas, and reactions to the crumbling
of the edifice of Arab unity and the emergence of “America” in its place as the “savior”
from the evil of Saddam Hussein. We contend that despite resistance from various conservative
elements of Saudi society, the winds of change brought by this war could not be
resisted. The novels under study skillfully portray the events of this war not as battlefield
accounts, but as accounts of a society wrestling with an irresistible wind of change.
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