The United States and Saudi Arabia: Oil-for-Security is Dead, Long Live Oil-for-Security?

Code: SL51805

Dates: October 25, 2024

Meets: 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Sessions: 1

Course Fee: $39.00

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In 2023, the Biden administration began promoting an American initiative to normalize ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel. The deal was part of a “grand bargain” between Saudi Arabia and the United States that would provide the Saudis with greater security and defense co-operation, as well as an American security guarantee and civilian nuclear energy assistance. Examine how this prospective deal emerged and how the Israel and Hamas war has influenced its logic.
Fee: $39.00
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Brandon Friedman

Brandon Friedman is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research at Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Center (MDC) for Middle Eastern and African Studies, the oldest Middle East focused research institute in Israel. He is also a member of the faculty of humanities at TAU, where he teaches the history of the modern Middle East to graduate and undergraduate students in both Hebrew and English. Brandon's research focuses on contemporary Saudi Arabia, but he has also been deeply involved in Israel's Abraham Accords related regional partnerships and the broader regional de-escalation and normalization developments prior to October 7. Brandon has been briefing diplomats, military officers, intelligence officials, non-governmental organizations, and decision-makers in Israel, Europe, India, China, Singapore, Japan, and elsewhere in the Middle East for more than a decade.

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