Saudi Arabia

In tandem with President Trump’s refusal to offer help with the Houthis, the Saudis are facing grim options to reverse Houthi military successes and a chokehold over their oil exports.

How the Gulf states choose to invest now could determine not just how they survive this crisis but how they sustain their role as both allocators and magnets of capital and superpowers in the global energy system.

On September 10, AGSI hosted a discussion on the latest escalation between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia.

On September 15, AGSI hosted a discussion on Saudi Arabia's positioning within the emerging regional political and security order.

Gulf countries are at the center of an emerging regional economic infrastructure expansion, but the implications will be global in nature.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar are each anchoring a different piece in the rebuilding of Syria’s infrastructure, turning investment and reconstruction into an informal division of labor.

Saudi author and anthropologist Ghada AlMuhanna Abalkhail launched al-Falaj, an open access digital directory, to help users explore the Arabian Peninsula's visual and documentary heritage.

As the September deadline for the U.S. troop drawdown approaches, Iraq’s period of comfortable neutrality is ending, but the country’s policymakers should not rush into unsustainable alignments.