Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: A, University of Miami (Department of Political Science), course: The United States and the Middle East, language: English, abstract: An investigation into the basis for the US-Saudi relationship since the end of the Cold War, which argues that counterterrorism and regional containment of Iran have displaced the oil for security paradigm as the dominant explanatory models for the persistence of strong ties between the two countries.