Mohammed Bin Salman quickly shook up the old sleepy way of doing business in Saudi Arabia when he effectively took power in 2015. He took on the Saudi establishment, sidelining the clergy and other royals. He also quickly spent the international goodwill invested in him with a series of destabilizing moves, including a destructive war in Yemen and the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Now solidly ensconced in power as a crown prince in his early thirties, Mohammed Bin Salman could rule for decades to come, steering the policy of one of the world’s wealthiest countries and the planet’s single most powerful oil producer.
On this episode of Order from Ashes, we hear about the emerging long-term trend lines of Mohamed Bin Salman’s rule from Ben Hubbard, New York Times reporter and author of the recent book MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman.
Participants include:
America’s Blind Spot on Palestine
Contesting Sectarian Identity in Iraq
[Arabic] LGBTQ Rights in Egypt
Kurdish Nationalism at an Impasse
[Arabic] Universal and Minority Rights in the Middle East
Universal and Minority Rights in the Middle East
The Caliphate’s Last Stand
Israel’s Global Security Industry
Syrian Voices
A New Progressive International?
Iran after the Broken Deal
The Difficulty of Reporting from Assad’s Syria
The Challenges of Defending Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
The Overlapping Wars in Yemen—and U.S. Complicity in Catastrophe
Iraq’s New Government, and Rebuilding Syria
Basra Protests Shake Iraqi Status Quo
How Germany Is Integrating One Million Syrian Refugees
New thinking about American liberal foreign policy
How to Research Lebanon’s Youth Problem (and Other Questions)
Recruiting militants: Greed or grievance?
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