Can Saudi Arabia Pull Off Its Plan for an EU-Style Union of Arabian States?
Democracy movements and Shia protests are challenging the Sunni kingdom, which wants to unify with some of its neighbors.… More »
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle
East Policy at the Brookings Institution. A career CIA officer, he has
advised four presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues in the
White House on the staff of the NSC.