العلاقات العراقية-السعودية 2003-2017

Abstract EN

The Iraqi-Saudi relations have not witnessed stability throughout its various stages from the twenties of the last century until the end of this study period.

Caution and lack of confidence were inherent in it.

Special interests became implicated and competition influenced in the region its salient features according to the course of regional and international events.

After the change in Iraq in 2003, nothing new happened; rather, the pace of instability and confidence increased in the relations of the two countries because the change came against the existence of conservative monarchies.

The success of the democratic experiment in Iraq is at the same time, it will constitute a failure of these systems that were feared from the effect of this democratic change on their existence.

These conservative monarchies considered the democratic change in Iraq a part of the "Greater Middle East Project" which was adopted by the US administration to get rid of dictatorial regimes.

Therefore, these conservative monarchies made every effort to thwart the Iraqi experiment.

Despite many attempts to push these relations towards stability, they did not achieve anything.

Then came the war on terrorist organizations in Iraq and the region in 2014 to work on the cooperation of its countries to confront this threat, which prompted Iraq and Saudi Arabia to adopt a new approach in the relations between them specifically, in 2017, which this study concluded.

This paper attempts to investigate these developments and expose the reasons for the weakness of these relations as well as the extent of the impact of the international and local factors on its path.