Over the last seventy-five years, the endlessly shifting coalitions on the chessboard of Arab regional politics seem to have played by the same rules of the game. Yet, as private interests have become a major source of political power, there have been major changes in the powers and purposes of the players
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Saudi Arabia’s crown prince pushes for big changes at home and abroad, while consolidating his grip on power.
Saudi Arabia’s recent waves of arrests reveal the political system’s increased use of security measures to control the public while promising limited reforms to stave off instability.
An unlikely meeting between Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and one of Iraq’s leading Shiite cleric.
The contradictions of U.S. foreign policy could lead to renewed tensions with Gulf leaders.
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