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In personalizing
Saudi
politics to the extent that he has, Abdullah has also personalized foreign policymaking.
Saudi
rulers regard the battle between Assad and his opponents as part of the Kingdom’s existential struggle against its main adversary, Iran.
Furthermore, the
Saudi
government has identified dozens of other state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to privatize, in order to help fill government coffers, deepen the equity market, and boost the private sector’s role in the economy.
Stimulating interest in the
Saudi
capital market with these listings prior to the
Saudi
Aramco IPO might be wise, given that IPOs throughout the Gulf region have slumped in recent years.
Qualified foreign investors, having gained access to the
Saudi
market in 2015, still account for only 4% of the market’s overall capitalization today.
These investors, together with
Saudi
institutional investors, are accustomed to the use of privatization as a wealth-distribution mechanism.
A further wrinkle in the pricing process, as Tadawul’s ex-CEO Adel Al-Ghamdi recently pointed out, is that
Saudi
corporate law prescribes a fixed-par-value regime for all of the country’s IPOs.
Since domestic retail investors expect such pricing, they may be reluctant to accept
Saudi
Aramco’s much higher share price.
For example, whereas listed
Saudi
companies have separate CEOs and board chairs, over half of S&P 500 companies in the United States are led by a single chair/CEO.
Because the
Saudi
capital market’s credibility depends on the credibility of the
Saudi
Aramco listing, it is critical that
Saudi
Arabia holds
Saudi
Aramco to domestic governance standards.
Given the current turmoil in the Middle East, the loss of Libyan and Yemeni oil, and increasing energy demand in the oil-producing countries, any increase in
Saudi
oil exports, if any, would have a limited impact on the market.
Then, last week, Jamal Khashoggi, an exiled
Saudi
journalist, vanished after entering
Saudi
Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document confirming his divorce, so that he could marry a Turkish woman the next day.
Saudi
women find themselves living in a petrified system.
Enforced segregation is mirrored in every aspect of
Saudi
life.
The
Saudi
judicial system is one of the most formidable obstacles to women’s aspirations, relying on Islamic interpretations that protect a defensive patriarchal system.
Thus,
Saudi
women are barred from the legal profession on the basis of a Wahhabi stricture that “a woman is lacking in mind and religion.”
Yet, despite such threats, thousands of
Saudi
women joined “We are all Manal al Sharif” on Facebook, and countless other videos of women driving have appeared on YouTube since her arrest.
Qatar has been chosen as the seat of fresh US-Taliban negotiations in order to keep the still-skeptical Afghan government at arm’s length (despite the pretense of “Afghan-led” talks), and to insulate the Taliban negotiators from Pakistani and
Saudi
pressure.
The bomber was Abdullah Asiri, a
Saudi
citizen and Al-Qaeda member who had returned from Yemen, claiming to have renounced terrorism and wishing to surrender directly to Prince Muhammad in his palace.
As a result, the
Saudi
security services have a feel for the pulse of jihadi debates, as well as for the radicals’ recruitment strategies.
Al-Qaeda has also damaged itself with the
Saudi
public, which has been repeatedly victimized by terrorist attacks.
Should Iran acquire nuclear weapons, the prospect of a regional arms race (starting with
Saudi
Arabia) – and thus heightened risk of nuclear war by accident, design, or miscalculation – is very much greater than is the risk of further proliferation in Northeast Asia.
Moreover, MBS managed all of this while still formally adhering to the
Saudi
royal family’s strict protocols and elaborate codes of hierarchy.
Multi-national advertisers who covet the huge
Saudi
market were informed in no uncertain terms that they would lose hefty contracts if they advertised on Al Jazeera.
Many Trump supporters regard
Saudi
Arabia as the missing ingredient for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
This is unlikely to happen as long as Iran and its principal regional rivals, the Gulf states (led by
Saudi
Arabia) and Turkey, view one another’s geopolitical calculations in zero-sum terms.
We have witnessed brutal repression of protests in Syria and Yemen,
Saudi
troops crossing into Bahrain, and an ongoing battle for Libya.
Saudi
Arabia, fearing that any role for Iraq in determining regional security would diminish
Saudi
political and military dominance among the Gulf countries, has still not opened an embassy in Baghdad.
Saudi
jihadis were at the heart of the mayhem that killed hundreds of thousands in the years immediately following the 2003 US-led invasion.
In the
Saudi
view, a US military exit would mean handing the entire country to Iran.
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