Beyond royal politics: state transformation and foreign policy in Saudi Arabia

Babak Mohammadzadeh

Third World Quarterly, 2019, vol. 40, issue 8, 1571-1589

Abstract: Saudi politics is commonly portrayed as reflecting a system of centralised personal rule in which decision-making power trickles down from the tightly knit power circles within the House of Saud. In contrast, this paper draws attention to the empowerment of quasi-autonomous state organisations in Saudi Arabia as a result of state transformation and regional integration. At its most extreme, state transformation in Saudi Arabia has created institutional and regulatory enclaves with vested interests and areas of competence that cross Saudi borders. This paper illustrates the foreign policy ramifications of transformed statehood in Saudi attempts to further Gulf regional integration in the context of the Gulf Monetary Union project.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1635880

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