From dramatically fluctuating oil prices to pressing demographic realities, Saudi Arabia, like much of the Middle East, is working to imagine a future beyond reliance on oil markets. There's a huge amount of young people in Saudi Arabia that are clamoring for jobs and the government is scrambling for ways to make sure they are employed and that they're satisfied and that they're on board with what Mohammed Bin Salman is proposing for the kingdom moving forward.īen Sheen Welcome to the Stratfor podcast, focused on geopolitics and world affairs from. Individual, team, and enterprise memberships are available at /subscribe. Emily Hawthorne I'm Emily Hawthorne, a Middle East and North Africa analyst at Stratfor and this podcast is brought to you by Stratfor Worldview, the world's leading geopolitical intelligence platform.
