NEIL PARTRICK
January 2024
Responsible Statecraft
November 2022
AGSIW (Arabian Gulf States Institute in Washington)
July 2022
International Times
June 2021
International Times
January 2021
International Times
June 2020
Interview with Bill Law of Arab Digest in which we discuss the Gulf Arab states’ relations with Iran, specifically the historical context, Saudi and Iranian tensions, Yemen, the Qatar dispute and its importance to Iran’s calculations, and the health of the GCC. The interview references my article: 'What Price rapprochement across the Arabian Peninsula?'
November 2019
Article on Saudi defence reform published by Sada/Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
October 2019
Interviewed by Dale Gavlak of Voice of America on current state of Saudi-Iranian relations:
April 2019
Quoted by AFP (link via The Daily Mail)
Contribution to April 10th Sada discussion on Yemen
"The Saudis’ incoherent approach to Yemen, which reflects a willingness to accept having a weak southern neighbor, is allowing the UAE to stir the pot."
January 2019
Review of 'Securitising Identity: The Case of the Saudi State'. New book on Saudi Arabia by Professor Ben Rich,
published in the journal 'Global Change, Peace & Security',
October 2018
Quoted by Karen DeYoung & Co. in The Washington Post
My comments included: " '[N]eutralizing of any meaningful autonomy' in the national guard, 'ensuring that the most effective bits of internal security report directly to you,' coupled with 'MBS’s sole control over substantive [weapons] procurement,' Partrick said, was a 'useful combination' for the crown prince."
August 2018
Quoted by Bloomberg News
“The Canadian government was only voicing a frustration that other Saudi allies privately feel with the Kingdom’s reform process, but was unwise to do it in comparatively strident language,” said Neil Partrick, a Saudi expert and editor of “Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy: Conflict & Cooperation.” Because the Trudeau government isn’t a significant ally, “MBS probably decided that Canada was, for the time being at least, expendable,” he said.
July 2018
Quoted by Reuters
'Independent analyst Neil Partrick said King Salman appears to have reined in MbS' "politically reckless approach" because of Jerusalem's importance to Muslims. "So MbS won't oppose Kushner's 'deal', but neither will he, any longer, do much to encourage its one-sided political simplicities,"'
June 2018
How the UAE wields power in Yemen
Interviewed by Zachary Laub of the Council on Foreign Relations about the role of the UAE in the Yemen conflict. i
May 2018
Sada is the online, Middle Eastern analysis journal of Washington DC's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
March 2018
Quoted in The Financial Times
'Neil Partrick, lead contributor to Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy, said in a recent book: “The UK cannot claim . . . to encourage Saudi caution in Yemen when Britain is so intimately involved in the Saudi effort in Yemen as military adviser and supplier.”'
December 2017
October 2017
The UAE's War Aims in Yemen - Sada
June 2017
April 2017
March 2017
November 2016
Sada published a feature on then President-elect Trump's prospective Mid-East policies. It included an opinion piece on the implications for Yemen of a Trump presidency. You can read this and a host of other pundits' assessments of the prospective impact of President Trump on other Middle Eastern countries/issues via the link above.
October 2016
October 2015
September 2015
June 2013
ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS