The Evolution Of Saudi Toward Ameica’rs Policy And Its Reasons Atfer The Cold War

After the end of the Cold War，the international political and economicsituation has been transformed greatly，produced very important influences ontheir foreign policy for most of the countries in the world. For the Saudi Arabia，its exposed to a special geopolitical，this situation bring not only the challenge，but also for the opportunity. Therefore，how to protect its interests of the state inthe transformation international environment has been came to be the primarypurpose of its foreign policy.As an important influence country in the Middle East and the world range，Saudi fully use its advantaged foreign resources，rich oil，the influence of thereligious and as a big country in regional state，combined with the situation athome and abroad size up the situation formulate its foreign policy，and thenrealize its national interests. In the1990s，Saudi Arabia and the United States，both sides in economic，military and regional security aspects，all those，the twoparties have multitudinous common interests. Under the common interestsappeal both sides relationship developed in a stable state. The911event havegreatly impact on the relations between the two sides， in the followinganti-terrorism， democratization， and about the Iraq war， each other’sdivergence increasing. Saudi policy to USA changed greatly.What are the reason that Saudi transform it policy to USA? This paper thinkthat the transformation mainly based on the following reasons: First，for the United States，Saudi’s geopolitical、energy、security position relative decline，and after September11，a series of policy which United States implementationalso touched on Saudi’s core interests that deepen the gap between each other;Second，Saudi’s troubles in politics，religion，and other aspects，forcing the Saudigoverment adjust their foreign policy，especially in religion aspect，as IslamicShrines，the army of the pagan which permited station in Saudi are deemed to bedon’t respect gods，especially American often badly hurt Islamists，so thegovernment of Saudi Arabia also not dare to defy world opinion; Third，in thecurrent，the multi-polarization tendency of international configuration becomemore and more obvious，though the United States is still the most powerfulcountry in the world，but its comprehensive strength has been relatively weak，this is the reason of transformation too.In short，The result of the variation which Saudi toward American policy isa joint action that was the international，regional environmental change affectand its domestic politics and religion ect elements. Involved in the nationalinterest cross swords，the gap between each other deepened. Saudi’s foreignpolicy will reduce rely on the United States more and more. The trend ofdiversification is clear. between the two countrys established a new strategicpartnership become an important option for the two sides.