TRANSFORMATION OF SAUDI ARABIA IN THE SHADE OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE THRONE Cover Image

TRANSFORMACJA ARABII SAUDYJSKIEJ W CIENIU WALKI O TRON
TRANSFORMATION OF SAUDI ARABIA IN THE SHADE OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE THRONE

Author(s): Adam Gwiazda
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Geopolityczne
Keywords: Saudi Arabia;fight against corruption;modernization of the economy;liberalization of manners

Summary/Abstract: The decline in the oil exports revenues has brought about a substantial deterioration ofthe economic situation of Saudi Arabia. This situation has forced the reigning KingSalman ibn Abd al-Aziz Al Su'ud to carry out economic and social reforms in 2015. Adeep dependence on oil exports was the main reason of the implementation of economicand social reforms. However, many influential members of the royal family have been,until recent times, in opposition to the planned transformation. Strong opposition fromthe powerful descendants of the Saudi family made it difficult to implement thesereforms until the youngest son of the reigning monarch, Mahammad Bin Salman, wasappointed as the heir to the throne in 2017. He arrested the corrupted members of theroyal family and other opponents not only in order to strengthen his own politicalposition but, first of all, in order to implement the ambitious programme that includesthe creation of new industries in Saudi Arabia, transformation of the current economicand social system and making the state independent of Wahhabi clerics

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 116-123
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish