AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain | LMEI, SOAS University of London

The panel discussion “AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain“ with David Wearing (Royal Holloway), Iona Craig (New America), Owen Jones (author) was held by the London Middle East Institute (LMEI), SOAS University of London on 15 October 2018. Find out more at UK ties with Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies are under the spotlight as never before. Increasing controversy surrounds Britain’s alliances with these regimes, and the UK’s key supporting role in the disastrous Saudi-led intervention in Yemen. What lies behind the British government’s commitment to the conservative regional order in the Gulf? Why have these ties grown even closer in recent years, despite ongoing, egregious human rights violations? In his ground-breaking new book, AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters To Britain (Polity 2018), David Wearing argues that the Gulf Arab monarchies constitute the UK’s most important and lucrative alliances in the global south. They are central both t