Saudi Arabia's "Genius" Crown Prince
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's Crown prince, seems to have charmed President Trump. But Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, says his "revolution" is mostly self-serving.
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| 0:44.6 | behind the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. |
| 0:49.2 | Welcome to this week's episode where we will discuss Saudi Arabia, one of the most |
| 0:53.4 | complicated and most interesting places in the will discuss Saudi Arabia, one of the most complicated and most |
| 0:54.9 | interesting places in the entire world. Also one of the most opaque. Saudi Arabia's history |
| 1:00.9 | is little understood outside of the kingdom, but it's hugely important for understanding |
| 1:04.9 | what's going on there right now. Saudi Arabia looms very, very large in U.S. consciousness. |
| 1:11.2 | It started in the 1970s when oil was everybody's focus. |
| 1:14.6 | It rose during the first Gulf War, and then it peaked in the years immediately after |
| 1:18.7 | September 11th. |
| 1:20.6 | Since then, Saudi Arabia has never been entirely out of the news, but it has become an especially |
| 1:25.5 | intense focus of scrutiny and interest during the Trump |
| 1:28.4 | administration. And that's because of the close relationship between the new dominant crown prince, |
| 1:33.9 | Muhammad bin Salman, or MBS, as he's called for short, and the Trump administration. You'll remember |
| 1:39.9 | that Donald Trump made a well-publicized to visit to Saudi Arabia in the spring of 2017. That was the one with the eerie, creepy crystal ball, and he showed his great closeness to the |
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