فهرست مطالب راید کریملی

Saudi Leaders have been faced with a series of important challenges such as declining oil revenues and their unpredictability, costly external threats, high rate of population growth and increasing demands of their citizens. When it became clear that initial response of government to these challenges by financing through budget deficit has been inadequate, some harder decisions were made including decreasing subsidies, making structural change in costs and conducting political and administrative reforms more deficient. Relatively low costs of production in this regard demonstrate the high degree of regime’s viability and sustainability. In fact, Saudi experience suggests the complexity of relations between the state and society. As a result, initial patterns of relations between the state and society in oil exporting countries should be reconsidered.