Saudi Arabia: Channeling Singapore
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has pursued significant societal reforms in Saudi Arabia while maintaining autocratic leadership, challenging Western notions of progress.
Robert D. Kaplan is the author of The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China, from which this essay is excerpted. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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