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Rachel Bronson is Vice President, Programs and Studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and is the author of Thicker than Oil: America’s Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia.
The United States and Saudi Arabia: Challenges Ahead
The Obama Administration confronts a vexing set of challenges across the greater Middle East, an area that stretches from Egypt in the west, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east, Central Asia in the north and Yemen in the south. In the midst of this “arc of instability” sits Saudi Arabia, a long-standing partner whose relationship with the United States has been enduring but fraught.
