Realism theory and the relations between the US and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

International relations have always been an attention drawing topic. Especially, predicting the behaviours of an international actor or its potential international policies has been a desire for many other actors. International relations theories try to serve this need. There are three main international relations theories developed for this purpose: realism, liberalism and constructivism. Realism has been used in this study to see whether it's reflected in the relations between two characteristically totally different countries: the US and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by looking into some important regional developments as case studies. The analyses of the case studies have shown that the findings are in favour of the validity of the international theory of realism in the US-Saudi partnership.