İsmail Akdoğan

Composite Security Dilemma and Intra-Alliance Debate: How Can We Explain Saudi Arabia’s Simultaneously Strained Relations with Both Its Ally and Adversary?

This paper attempts to explain why Saudi Arabia has strained relations simultaneously with both its ally the United States and adversary Iran in the period of 2010–2020. Saudi Arabia’s position in this situation is analysed through the lens of Snyder’s composite security dilemma...