الإستمرار و التغير في السياسة الخارجية السعودية أثناء فترة حكم الملك عبد الله بن عبد العزيز (2005-2015)‎

الملخص EN

This study aims to clarify the Saudi foreign policy during the reign of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz during his rule from 2005 to 2015, as well as to examine the extent of change and continuity of that policy as a result of regional, Arab and international developments that occurred in the wake of the Arab Spring that imposed major challenges and threats to the security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Therefore, the Kingdom had to face these challenges and find approaches in its foreign policy in order to deal with them.

Over the past decades, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been a conservative force seeking to maintain the status quo in the Middle East.

However, the period that followed King Abdullah's assumption witnessed the Kingdom's tendency to reformulate its foreign policy in an attempt to find solutions to the region's crises, or to search for a new site for it in a region that has undergone a geopolitical transformations whose features have not yet been clarified.

Therefore, the importance of this study is highlighted in monitoring Saudi foreign policy before and after the Arab Spring revolutions, to determine the extent of change and continuity in its foreign policy, and to monitor the transformation of that policy to confront regional and international crises.

The study concluded that continuity was the hallmark of Saudi foreign policy in pre- Arab Spring Revolutions period.

However, the continuation that characterized that policy for decades was shattered after the Arab Spring Revolutions.