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Saudi Arabia
August 7, 2018
Anthony Bubalo
Who Gets This Mad at Canada?
Saudi Arabia's expulsion of the Canadian ambassador over a negligible conflict suggests an ulterior motive.
August 1, 2018
Jeet Heer
Was Rex Tillerson fired for trying to prevent a Middle Eastern war?
June 23, 2018
Rafia Zakaria
Driving Toward Change
It took a prince to end Saudi Arabia's ban on female drivers. Monarch-led feminism hasn't worked in the past. But this time might be different.
May 17, 2018
Jeet Heer
Europe’s Total Failure to Resist Trump
While autocrats take advantage of the president's foreign-policy chaos, America's oldest allies are paralyzed by division and dependency.
May 11, 2018
Elizabeth Drew
America Gets It Wrong on Iran—Again
Donald Trump’s decision to leave the Iranian nuclear deal continues a rich tradition of U.S. fecklessness.
May 11, 2018
Peter Vanham
Why Do-Gooders Love Development Statistics
Sure: dictators do, too. But development stats, properly weighted, can be a tool for change.
May 1, 2018
Jeet Heer
Arab Leaders Have Abandoned Gaza, Too
Middle Eastern autocrats are more interested in isolating Iran and punishing Hamas than defending the Palestinians.
April 6, 2018
Jeet Heer
Mohammed bin Salman and the Death of Foreign Policy Debate
The Saudi crown prince is getting a hero's welcome in America, where politicians have largely given up on the whole democracy thing.
March 21, 2018
Daniel Benaim
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Brian Katulis
The Passive Foreign Policy President
How Donald Trump's hands-off approach to Saudi Arabia squanders the U.S.'s leverage in the Middle East
March 20, 2018
Jonathan Spyer
What a Crown Prince Wants
Funds and favor for Saudi Arabia 2.0—and also to smash Iran.
January 19, 2018
Brian Katulis
,
Daniel Benaim
Trump’s Middle East Policy: The Good(ish), the Bad, and the Ugly
A look back at what the administration has accomplished in the region in the past year
November 8, 2017
Daniel Benaim
,
Brian Katulis
Trump’s Blank Check for Saudi Arabia
As the kingdom makes mass arrests at home and tensions spike in the region, the United States looks on.
October 11, 2017
Rafia Zakaria
Why Saudi Arabia Lifted Its Ban on Women Drivers
Breaking the law made Manal Al-Sharif a women's rights advocate, she explains in her memoir "Daring to Drive."
June 26, 2017
Alex Shephard
Rex Tillerson is the most miserable person in the Trump administration.
June 22, 2017
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump and the State Department have two different Middle East policies.
June 9, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump just contradicted his own secretary of state—again.
June 7, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump just declared open season on Iran.
June 7, 2017
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Trump is going to start a dang war.
June 6, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump is recklessly going all in on Saudi Arabia.
June 5, 2017
Jeet Heer
This is what happens when you embolden Saudi Arabia.
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