Energy Security Is the Real Way to Put America First
Since withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal in May, the Trump administration has faced a serious dilemma. On one hand, with the upcoming ...
OPEC
U.S. Urges Saudis to Stabilize Oil Prices, Underscoring Continued Energy Insecurity
Tomorrow in Vienna, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will meet with several non-OPEC producers, including Russia, to chart the future of the global oil market. The gro...
Policy Briefs
Trump Is Right to Target Saudi-Russian Collusion
For those who want to see what a real case of Russian collusion looks like, check out what has been happening in global oil markets for the past year and a half. In late 2016, Russia and Saudi Ar...
Op-eds
Pushing Back on Putin: Gaining Leverage with Cheaper Oil and Gas
FDD's CSIF Research Memo
Memos
The US can breathe easy on Russia-OPEC deal
In their latest op-ed for The Hill, FDD’s deputy director of congressional relations Boris Zilberman and senior research analyst Varsha Koduvayur explain why a potential long-term...
Op-eds
Iran’s GDP Growth Back to the Normal Level
Iran’s Parliament Research Center (PRC), an official arm of the country’s legislature, or majlis, has forecast the coun...
Policy Briefs
How the Nuclear Deal Boosted Iran’s Economy
Last week, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced a staggering 12.5 percent GDP growth rate for the most recent year on the Persian calendar,...
Policy Briefs
A Tale of Two Trumps
There seem to be at least two Donald Trumps on how to deal with Saudi Arabia, and it's difficult to know which one will trump the other in office. Trump One sai...
Op-eds
Despite Stillborn Deal, Saudi-Russian Petrodiplomacy Could Reshape The Future Of Oil
The Saudi-Iran grudge match still hangs over the oil patch. Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s two largest oil exporters, finally reached an ...
Op-eds
Meet Saudi Arabia’s Biggest (and Most Controversial) Twitter Star
Saudi Arabia is changing, some say. The authoritarian desert kingdom is becoming more responsive to the will of its people and the demands of the global information economy, say others. This idea...
Op-eds
Rand Paul Slams Saudi Arabia
Senator Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, rode into the Senate chamber in 2010 on a Tea Party movement that took U.S. pol...
Op-eds
The Flexible-Fuel Solution
Co-authored by Anne Korin Negotiators in Geneva appear to be sleepwalking into a Sunni–Shia nuclear arms race, so a bad neighborhood — as former Israeli prime...
Op-eds
Oil Prices Cripple Iraq’s ISIS War
Co-authored by Daniel R. DePetris Iraq had a miserable 2014. The Islamic State (IS) reentered the country in large numbers early in the year, routing the Iraqi security forces i...
Op-eds
A Milestone for Saudi Oil Policy
For the last several years, oil produced in North America has generally sold for a cheaper price than oil imported from across the At...
Policy Briefs
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: A Troika of Realists
There was once a different Iran. At its helm was not a mullah but a monarch — secular, allied with the West, and committed to his country’s development and modernization. In a new boo...
Op-eds
Israel An Energy Superpower? Not Quite.
Israel is becoming an energy superpower,” at least ...
Op-eds
King Crude: How Iraq’s ISIS Crisis Restores Saudi Influence
While the world panics over the conquests of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Saudi Arabia, oddly enough, has reason to be thankful. Even though ISIS advocates the A...
Op-eds
How to Hit Putin Where It Hurts
Co-authored by Anne Korin As Russia's Ukrainian incursion sends a chill through the Baltic states, diplomatic fecklessness and the lack of adequate collective defense capab...
Op-eds
Iran’s Nuclear Shadow
During the past decade, Western diplomats have been engaged in protracted negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear program. Though a deal remains elusive, Western policymak...
Op-eds
The Oil Boom’s Foreign Policy Dividend
Co-authored by Nouriel Roubini The domestic benefits of the U.S. oil production boom are we...