The Relations Between Saudi And US After "9.11" Incident

Saudi Arabia and the US, one is the Islamic nation with a large amount of oil wealth, and the other is a nation with developed economy and exoteric polity. Both countries have maintained relatively steady strategic confederative relations in a long term. Because of its rich oil resource,the important geopolitical factor and the religious factor, Saudi Arabia becomes a indispensable part in American Middle East and even global strategy. Before the cold war, Saudi Arabian and the American relations already had the double meanings of politics and economics. During the cold war, both of them contained the permeation of the Soviet communism influence, combated together the expansion of Arabian radical influence. At the same time, Saudi Arabia cooperated with the United States politically,economically and etc. After Persian Gulf War, Saudi Arabia allows US to station troops in its territory, depends upon American to defend its state sovereignty, the territorial integrity and the family rules, and to resist the neighbor countries's infringement. In this frame, they continue to cooperate in political, military, security, economic domains and so on. However, because of the Palestinian question, the Islamic Fundermental principles and and the different political culture originally, they often cause the relations between the two countries to fall into the awkward region. The"9.11"terrorism attack in 2001 has a major impact on foreign policy of saudi Arabia and the United States and puts Saudi Arabian and the American relations into the twists and turns, and made it in the crucial phase which reforge and reform. Under the influence of factors such as the prominent contradictions of Saudi Arabia and the United States,the decline of Saudi Arabia's status in the United States'global strategy,the "quality" of the reconstruction of Iraq make the relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States reforge and reform which is inevitable. Saudi Arabia's political reform and democratization,Saudi Arabia and the United States have intervention to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli problem,Saudi Arabia and the United States has intensified efforts to become a counter-terrorism cooperation.All of this became the way of reforging and reforming the bilateral relations.Both of Saudi Arabian and American take the national interest as the core principles, and already formed a set of quite mature mechanism in the process of bilateral relations and each other's benefit and demand is still bigger than the contradiction and conflict exists. Therefore, Saudi Arabian and the American relations cannot present the big change, but also has the enough advance power.