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• Analysis: Threat of ISIS, U.S. Diplomacy Help Re-build Tested U.S.-Saudi Ties
  • September 12,2014

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  For the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship, what a difference 9 months makes.  Less than a year ago, a flood of analysts and commentators were debating whether the U.S.-Saudi alliance would survive what some were calling the lowest point in that relationship in decades.  But just 9 months later, with Secretary Kerry in Jeddah for talks on […]

   
• John Kerry in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Coordinate with Allies in Upcoming Battle Against the Islamic State
  • September 11,2014

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  • SUSTG Team
   

  Secretary of State John Kerry is in Jeddah today for talks with the Saudi Arabian government and other allies as the U.S. seeks a broad, cooperative effort in defeating the Islamic State. Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide bases for the training of moderate Syrian rebels who are battling the Sunni militants and the Assad […]

   
• Nitaqat Three Years On: A Summer 2014 Report Card
  • September 11,2014

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  • Nathan Field
   

  Four years into the Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia has been an oasis of relative calm and stability in an otherwise tumultuous Middle East region. This is partially because the perceived social, economic and political dysfunction resulting from Arab Spring reform movements has had a sobering effect on Saudi perceptions.  In fact, many Saudis consider the […]

   
• At Dinner with Foreign Policy Experts, Obama Previews Plans to Escalate Attacks on IS Without Congressional Approval
  • September 9,2014

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  When President Obama announced that he would not strike Syria without Congressional approval in 2013 following a chemical attack by Syria’s President Assad, Gulf allies of the U.S. determined to see Assad overthrown were put off at the unwillingness of a U.S. President to follow through on a previously set “red line.” “While I believe […]

   
• Higher Education in Saudi Arabia: ‘The Easiest Part is the Buildings, the Hardest Part is What is Behind the Walls’
  • September 9,2014

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  • SUSTG Team
   

  The 150,000 Saudi students studying overseas and 83,000 in the United States are just one part of Saudi Arabia’s higher education plans, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James B. Smith said in a recent FocusKSA video with SUSRIS Editor-in-Chief Patrick Ryan.     Saudi Arabia has invested big in infrastructure for higher education, Smith said, and […]

   
• Social Media’s Arab Future
  • September 9,2014

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  • Richard Wilson
   

  One could argue that of all the repercussions from the Arab Spring in 2011 none will be more consequential than the kickstart of a period of phenomenal growth of social media in the Arab World.  The pace is astonishing. Apart from the numbers, what does it actually mean if Saudi Arabia has the highest per-capita […]

   
• Saudi Arabia Fast-Tracks Nuclear Power to Meet Soaring Domestic Demand
  • September 9,2014

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  • SUSTG Team
   

  In an excellent round-up of the shifting energy sector in Saudi Arabia, James Conca in Forbes discusses Saudi Arabia’s embrace of nuclear and renewable energy sources to meet demand – an important initiative for the increasingly energy-hungry Saudi society. “Saudi Arabia burns almost a billion barrels of oil a year to produce electricity, this change […]

   
• Shifting Gender Norms in Saudi Arabia
  • September 7,2014

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  • Nouf Al Sadiq and Stefanie Hausheer
   

  Though often caricatured as backwards and traditional, Saudi gender roles are undergoing a reconfiguration. Previously, the majority of Saudi women did not work outside of the home and relied on male relatives to manage many aspects of family life. Globalization and economic necessity, not necessarily liberal values, are propelling more Saudi women into work outside […]

   
• Saudi Arabian Northern Border Security Project Breaks Ground
  • September 7,2014

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  • Lucien Zeigler
   

  Saudi Arabia has begun the first phase of a new border security project along its northern borders, according to the Saudi Press Agency. Phase 1 of the “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques project for border security” was kicked off at a ceremony in Jeddah with a visiting delegation from neighboring Bahrain. Crown Prince Salman, […]

   
• ‘Changing Tack’: Saudi Arabia Cushions Labor Reform with New Hours, Subsidies
  • September 5,2014

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  • SUSTG Team
   

  A new draft labor law in Saudi Arabia “would limit working hours at companies to entice new employees” and includes adjustments to recent rules, according to a Reuters report. That report, a thorough look at Nitaqat reform in the Kingdom, found that reforms have had mixed results: [Read the full report from Reuters]

   
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