Résumé:
There are no doubts that the most influential raw material in the world’s political and
economic state since the 20
th
century is the black gold. The latter is considered as the
main reason behind the war, peace, agreement, and conflicts between the world’s
major powers. This is what for the United States of America has shifted its foreign
policy from time to time in order to fulfill the requisites of oil global market and for
whatever suits the oil major exporters. In this regard, the dissertation investigates the
United States foreign policy towards the domination of the Middle Eastern oil, and
further supported by a case study that is devoted for US -Saudi relations. In addition,
this research clarifies that since the Middle Eastern countries are top oil producers and
exporters, the United States was not only in need, but obliged to establish formal
relations and business with these countries changing its foreign policy from an
administration to another to serve its interests in the area. The present work argues
that the US, after series of struggles, played its malignant plan over the Persian Gulf,
and successfully gained the major oil-rich country as its ally, Saudi Arabia. The US-Saudi relations are still a debatable point in the international arena, some of experts
encourage these relations to be strengthened and preserved, and others prefer to reset
these relations. But the fact that the US and Saudi Arabia share the benefits of the
petrodollar system making it difficult for each to intend an end for the 75 years old
friendship.
