Tag Archives: Saudi Arabia
The Five Minutes to Midnight Podcast
The Five Minutes to Midnight podcast explains intractable issues in international politics with in-depth insight and analysis from experts – journalists, academics and activists. Read more [...]
Listen: Saudi and Gulf relations and influence in the Arab world
Dr James Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, analyses the relations between the Persian/Arab Gulf states and their influence on other Arab countries. He also explains the motives behind the United Arab Emirates’ normalisation of relations with Israel.
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Listen – Iran: Between conflict and stagnation
Mohamed El-Doufani writes:
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Listen: “The Iranian threat” – real or imagined?
Mohamed El-Doufani* writes
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International law vs eternal recurrence: The US and Israel
Lawrence Davidson: "If Biden wants to promote a safer, more humane world under the rule of law, he should turn his attention to the assassin and not the assassinated; to the saboteur and not those sabotaged; to Israel, and… his own nation’s Middle East foreign policy…" Read more [...]
Saudis’ Yemeni headache won’t go away if and when the guns fall silent
James Dorsey says once the Saudi war on Yemen ends, the risk is of the emergence of a generation that has nothing to look forward to and nothing to lose – one that is likely to deeply resent what it perceives Saudi Arabia has done to its country. Read more [...]
Prince Muhammad’s Khashoggi bullet: An insight into Saudi strategic thinking
James Dorsey views Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s murderous strategy towards critics and highlights his efforts to use ties with Russia as leverage to ward off potential US pressure following the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi. Read more [...]
Saudi Arabia and the West’s right wing: A dubious alliance
James Dorsey highlights Saudi Arabia’s courting of European far-right groups, including Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, the Danish People’s Party, the Swedish Democrats, and Europe of Nations and Freedom, a bloc of far-right parties in the European parliament. Read more [...]
أردوغان تكلم أخيرا (Erdogan speaks, at last)
قلم منذر هنداوي
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Whither Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism?
James Dorsey analyses the structural societal and political obstacles to Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s professed desire to reform and modernise Saudi Arabia and place it on the path of an undefined “moderate Islam”. Read more [...]
