The Window Is Closing For Riyadh -- Robert Looney, Foreign Policy

The Window Is Closing For Riyadh -- Robert Looney, Foreign Policy

The oil won’t last forever -- so Saudi Arabia’s government has to reform its economy if it wants to survive.

With its coffers still overflowing, Saudi Arabia appears to have avoided contagion from the Arab Spring through massive government expenditures ---what amounts to hush money for disaffected youth and minorities. But the country's surface calm is just that; peek a few metaphorical inches down, and one discovers a dysfunctional society that is becoming unmanageable.

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