And Saudi Arabia has a vested interest in shipping crude to the United States: The kingdom owns Motiva, America’s largest refinery. Aramco took full control of the Port Arthur, Texas, facility ...

Relations soured when Saudi Arabia embargoed oil shipments to the United States and, along with OPEC, raised global oil prices, sending the U.S. economy into a deep recession in the mid-1970s.

"Saudi Arabia is aware that the world is no longer unipolar with just the United States dominating everything, and that it's moving towards a multipolar world with other powers rising like China ...

The United States and Saudi Arabia have been strategic partners during most of the postwar era. In broad terms, the United States and Saudi Arabia have cooperated closely in shaping Gulf and regional ...

United States-Saudi Transactional Diplomacy: Mining. For Saudi Arabia, its mining industry is a national strategic industry, a key sector in economic diversification efforts at home and part of a ...

Responses to trouble that Saudi Arabia has caused for the United States—most notably the cultivation of Wahhabi extremism that was reflected in, among other things, fifteen of the nineteen ...

For years, Saudi Arabia has pressed the United States to help it develop a nuclear energy program, as Saudi leaders look beyond oil to power their country.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have been allies since the kingdom was declared in 1932, giving Riyadh a powerful military protector and Washington secure oil supplies.

Thousands of Saudi and other Gulf state students are now studying in China rather than the United States. In May, Saudi Arabia joined Egypt and the UAE in warmly readmitting Syria into the Arab ...

The tectonic plates of the Middle East are shifting. But unless peace is built on basic humanity, it cannot last. The ...

Download "Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, and the United States" 478kb By Anthony H. Cordesman The appointment of General John Abizaid as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia comes at a time there are so many tensions ...