Yusuf Bahadır Keskin

The ideological hostility and walls of suspicion between Riyadh and Tehran have become a significant dynamic in the relations with post- Saddam Hussein Shiite led Iraq. The policies thoroughly analyzed in this work, A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Saudi Struggle for Iraq by Katherine Harvey, exemplify how historical traumas and prejudices can pro- foundly influence the foreign policymaking process.