Anna Viden is a full-time Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Her work focuses on Saudi-U.S. relations and the role of tribalism, religion and resource dependence in Saudi state formation and regime survival from a domestic and foreign policy perspective. Her work has been published in New Global Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies and Confluences Méditerranée. Her webpage is https://www.sas.upenn.edu/irp/people/anna-viden.