Saudi Arabia’s Relations with China and Russia, Hedging and Increasing Relative Power amidst American Disengagement from West Asia: Implications, Change and Continuity
Saudi Arabia’s Relations with China and Russia, Hedging and Increasing Relative Power amidst American Disengagement from West Asia: Implications, Change and Continuity

Amir Mohsen Hadian Rasanani

Volume 8, Issue 4 , October 2024, , Pages 877-916

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2025.382804.1465

Abstract
  Saudi foreign policy was mostly affected by its strategic relations with the United States as its primary and sole security provider. However, since the rise of Mohammed Bin Salman, ...  Read More
Weathering a Global Transition: The Middle East’s Balancing Momentum
Weathering a Global Transition: The Middle East’s Balancing Momentum

Hassan Ahmadian

Volume 8, Issue 3 , July 2024, , Pages 465-492

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2024.379844.1452

Abstract
  Regional trends strongly influence and are influenced by global power flows. For decades, international politics have been shaped and reshaped by a bipolar and, after the break down ...  Read More
The Prospect of the United States and Saudi Arabia Relations in Light of Khashoggi Murder
The Prospect of the United States and Saudi Arabia Relations in Light of Khashoggi Murder

Zahra Aghamohammadi; Ali Omidi

Volume 2, Issue 4 , October 2018, , Pages 605-632

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2019.256100.1054

Abstract
  A decade after the establishment of the Saudi regime Riyadh and Washington constructed a strategic alliance between themselves in 1945. On the other hand, given the “Pivot to ...  Read More
The Different Layers of Islam in Interaction with Politics: a Comparative Analysis of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey
The Different Layers of Islam in Interaction with Politics: a Comparative Analysis of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey

Mohammad Samiei

Volume 2, Issue 3 , July 2018, , Pages 383-406

https://doi.org/10.22059/wsps.2018.69037

Abstract
  This study attempts to assess the different ways through which Islam as a religion can impact politics. In fact, the notion that is collectively labeled as Islam and its re-interpretation ...  Read More