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Saudi Arabia
Regional Security
Saudi leaders historically regarded both aggression and externally
supported subversion as potential threats to their country's national
security. Thus, their primary foreign policy objective was to
maintain political stability in the broader Middle East area that
surrounds the Arabian Peninsula. Their principal concerns tended
to focus on their two more populous and more powerful neighbors,
Iraq to the north and Iran across the Persian Gulf. Since 1970,
Saudi Arabia has perceived each of these countries alternately
as friend and foe, and the nature of its relations with Iran and
Iraq at any given time has influenced the pattern of Saudi relations
with other states.
Data as of December 1992
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