摘要：While there are many Middle Eastern topics that are beyond the scope of Iran and Saudi Arabia, these two states not only have competed with one another for what they might view as regional supremacy (there are other regional military and economic powers as well such as Israel, Egypt, etc…), but these two states have also been in disagreement on a number of specific issues in the region; whether it is Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Bahrain, Yemen, or the production of oil, the regimes of Saudi Arabia and Iran tend to have different political interests on these matters. In the context of this historical analysis, the paper describes three core factors that have had the most influence on the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran: (1) identity differences between the Wahhabism and Shiism; (2) geo-economy of oil and petroleum and (3) geopolitical hegemony in Middle East
关键词：Political Economy; Social Constructivism; Iran; Saudi Arabia
