The Balance and unbalance in alliance relations The Saudi Arabia and United State Relation as model

Khalil Namuq, Basma

	The Balance and unbalance in alliance relations The Saudi Arabia and United State Relation as model
JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
Article 1, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 462-492
Author
Basma Khalil Namuq
Abstract
Saudi Arabia and United States long relation could present an important subject to understand alliance kind in international relations types. We trying in this study to diagnose and analyze the Saudi Arabia and United States model to find balance and unbalance statues and its influence on the directions of Saudi Arabia foreign policy positions. We divided the study in two parts, each part have many sections. The first part deal with the historian emergence of Saudi Arabia state and its development in three stages including its foreign relations with regions and international powers. While the second part was dedicated in analyzing and understanding the mechanism and active facts that drawing the Saudi Arabia foreign policy toward American United State. We find that the relation have unbalance attribute relate in structure method of the third Saudi Arabia state that different of the first one which established according to a local deal between a cleric man and a tribe sheik while the third state building according a mix of local , region and international facts. The fails of the foreign policy of first state reflects negatively on the mind of third state decision maker. This fear pushes him to try to protect his state by enforce its relation with international powers neglecting its sovereignty which make him weak in many fields. Saudi Arabia foreign policy will be always an important subject need to understand from us because it's an important state in the region.

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