In the global diplomacy, Saudi Arabia is no longer content with petrodollar influence; it now seeks epistemic legitimacy. The launch of NEOM, a city touted as the world’s first cognitive metropolis, ...

In global diplomacy, Saudi Arabia is no longer content with petrodollar influence; it now seeks epistemic legitimacy. The launch of NEOM, a city touted as the world’s first cognitive metropolis ...

Last week, I covered how the dollar was used as a weapon and ‘geopolitical tool of compliance, punishment and hierarchy’, and ...

David Moyes has responded to questions about Idrissa Gueye's future with the midfielder one of 11 out-of-contract Everton ...

However, the ‘Nixon shock’ also led to the birth of the petrodollar – was the dollar ... the US dollar’s volatility. In 2013, Saudi Arabia and China entered into a Petro-Yuan Pact, driven ...

Last week, I covered how the dollar was used as a weapon and ‘geopolitical tool of compliance, punishment and hierarchy’, and this week I’ll turn to the exodus which followed and is following.

to strike an informal agreement with the government of Saudi Arabia to denominate oil purchases in dollars and recycle those dollars back into the US economy. This petrodollar agreement, although it ...

Nikhil Lohade is the news editor for the Middle East and North Africa. He helps oversee The Wall Street Journal's coverage of a region that stretches from Iran to Morocco and Turkey. He is based in ...