
The relationship between oil prices, investment and future supply is not so straightforward, and international organizations warn of a major price spike in the future.

Rapidly changing global oil markets present fundamental challenges to Saudi Arabia’s ability to use its resource endowment to project global market power.

While privatizing Saudi Aramco makes considerable sense over the long run, it is unlikely that a large-scale IPO will happen, either now or in the next several years.

The recent Saudi execution of a prominent Shia cleric and the subsequent attack on their embassy in Iran has heightened tensions across the Gulf.

The notion that Iran and Saudi Arabia are predestined for rivalry due to an ancient divide fails to account for domestic and regional trends that may be out of their control.

Iran and Saudi Arabia will always be competitors, but they aren’t destined to be sectarian adversaries.

The United States has significant leverage over Saudi Arabia; it just needs the political will to use it.

A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.

For cash-starved Yemen, accession to the GCC has been a highly prioritized goal. But the GCC’s members have been reluctant to allow Yemen in.

The implications of the Saudi sectarian escalation for the region’s high politics are likely overstated, but the new forces unleashed by the Arab uprising may make it far more difficult to deescalate these sectarian passions than it has been to inflame them.