The domestic sources of Saudi foreign policy

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The domestic sources of Saudi foreign policy: Islamists and the state in the wake of the Arab Uprisings

Saudi Arabia’s fragmented Islamist field has displayed a diversity of responses to the coup in Egypt, the conflict in Syria, and the Saudi-led war in Yemen. While a group of younger Saudi Islamists and intellectuals have embraced elements of democracy, the war in Syria, the authoritarian political system, and domestic sectarian tendencies have rallied support for the ISIS model of violent political change.

 

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