Saudi Arabia Regional and Global Linkages
11.15.2017 :: Middle East
Saudi Arabia has built a powerful network of regional and local political, military and economic relationships incorporating a shared extremist-religious affiliation. As a result, despite its reputation as a backward despotic clerico-monarchy with an extreme dependency on oil sales, it has become a deadly political force in the Middle East and beyond.
To understand the dynamics and projections of Saudi power it is important to identify and analyze how it uses its use military, religious and economic weapons.