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Based on its strategic, historical, and religious location, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia constitutes a model of a state whose regional environment constitutes a clear determinant of its foreign policy because it reveals broad areas of movement and mutual influence. The study aims to determine the Kingdom’s role as a regional collaborator from 2015-2022. The importance of the study stems from the fact that the regional role of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become more effective after the launch of Vision 2030, which aims to bring about a comprehensive renaissance that enhances the effective influence of the Kingdom regionally and internationally. The study uses both the inductive approach? the descriptive analytical approach, and the case study approach to analyze the regional role of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? as a regional collaborator. The study concluded several results, the most important of which is that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is important in the regional environment religiously? politically? economically? and security as well. The study's results also showed that international and regional transformations affected the effectiveness of the Kingdom’s regional role in its various dimensions. In addition? the outcome of the study provides scientific material for practitioners and concerned officials in government institutions related to the foreign policy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is useful in setting policies? making appropriate decisions? and taking measures to deal with regional and international variables that concern the Kingdom. The study presented several recommendations? the most important of which is paying more attention to everything that would enhance the regional political role of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? especially in the context of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.
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Alsubaie, A. S., Nour Azm al, L. B. M., & Dabkeh, R. Bin. (2024). Saudi Arabia as a Regional Collaborator (2015-2022). International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 14(1), 3137–3144.
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