Saudi Arabia

Ahmad Zaki Yamani, ministro del petrolio dell’Arabia Saudita tra il 1962 e il 1986, amava ripetere che “come l’età della pietra non finì perché terminarono le pietre, così l’età del petrolio non finirà per mancanza di petrolio”. Questo è…

Whereas the Biden Indo-Pacific foreign policy has an awful lot of commonality with the Trump position, in matters related to the Middle East it is being a very different policy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQK0PF5oIo

Saudi Arabia is stepping up cooperation with Iraq’s government to secure its northeastern flank. The goal is to contain and counter the Iranian presence in Baghdad, boosting economic and commercial ties, and the visit of the Iraqi Prime…

The controversial writer Richard Dawkins put it well: “A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.” It is hard to think of a better summing up of the new Biden administration’s naïve Wilsonian approach…

Un importante fattore di cambiamento sembra interessare la politica saudita da qualche mese a questa parte. Il ruolo pressoché incontrastato dell’erede al trono Mohammad bin Salman appare diminuito nella portata e nella sostanza, in un…