The critical links between governance, prosperity, and security, while apparent, are too often forgotten.

In the 1930s, when Hassan Al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, asked the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz, for permission to open a branch of his movement in the Kingdom, the King rejected the request as unnecessary. "The entire Kingdom is a branch for the Brotherhood and all Saudis are Muslim brothers," he replied.

Amr Hamzawy presented his Carnegie Paper “The Saudi Labyrinth: Evaluating the Current Political Opening."  Jamal Khashoggi, Advisor to the Ambassador of the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and David Ottaway of the Washington Post served as discussants and Nathan Brown moderated.