Neil Partrick

Neil Partrick has been researching and writing about the Middle East since the early 1990s when he lived and worked in Jerusalem. His first published works were on Palestinian factionalism and the Palestinian-Israeli territorial struggle, and he has since written extensively on the region with a particular focus on the geopolitics of Gulf security. As a senior editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Neil worked on Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Palestinian Territories, and he was a visiting professor at the American University of Sharjah, UAE, from 2007-09. Neil subsequently had several papers on Gulf politics published by the London School of Economics and gave briefings to the House of Commons' select committee on Foreign Affairs. 'Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy' was first published in 2016 by I.B. Tauris. The second, updated, edition is available in paperback from end-April 2018.