ABSTRACT
This chapter examines neoliberalism and English education policy in the KSA using a policy cycle approach and taking into account the effects of globalisation. It explores the forms of national capital the KSA employs to manage and maintain its national interests in the face of policy pressures from beyond its borders. It also examines the pressures of the neoliberal globalised economy. I argue that the neoliberal ‘self-management’ of English learning has been contested at various levels and through unequal power relations, thus causing paradoxes, contradictions and a clash of civilisations in the Saudi context.
