Saudi Arabia faces an existential threat from a potentially proliferating Iran and an unpredictable ally in the Trump administration. Zoha Naser and Sarah Tzinieris explore how the country is carefully weighing up its strategic partnerships as it pursues a civil nuclear programme
Lecturer, Centre for Science and Security Studies, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Sarah holds a MPhil and PhD in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.
She has broad-ranging research interests but currently her work focuses on nuclear security, non-proliferation, US-China strategic competition, AUKUS, and current and emerging challenges to the international order.
Sarah supports the implementation of the UK’s Nuclear Security Capacity Building Programme, an academia-industry consortium that works to strengthen nuclear security in newcomer countries around the world.