Based upon fieldwork carried out between 2012 and 2014, this article sheds light on the dynamics of socio-political change unfolding in Kuwait since the turn of the 2000s and which has led to the erosion of the old social pact. It shows how elite rivalry has taken a new turn, breaking with succession customs and with increasing power struggles between princes of the second generation of the Al Sabah royal family, vying to use the constitutionally-enshrined succession rules to their advantage. Focusing on the rivalry between former PM Nasser al-Muhammad and the powerful Ahmad al-Fahd that was played out in the open, the article analyses their strategies of co-opting contending actors in parliament and society in order to build alliances mixi...
Předkládaná bakalářská práce se zabývá politickým systémem rentiérských států, kde je konkrétně sled...
While considerable existing scholarship examines the degree to which Muslim Brotherhood affiliates h...
This study, using contemporary history and empirical research, updates traditional rentier state the...
Based upon fieldwork carried out between 2012 and 2014, this article sheds light on the dynamics of ...
The democratic “exceptionalism” which the emirate of Kuwait boasted after 1962 did not survive the 2...
Since the unfolding of the Arab revolts in 2011, we have witnessed the rise and revolts of marginali...
Kuwait has been a precursor to democratization in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. The ti...
Depuis le début des révoltes arabes de 2011, on assiste, au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord à l’é...
This study re-examines the history of constitutional development in Kuwait. It argues that existing ...
THE GULF CRISIS (1990-91) & THE KUWAITI REGIME - LEGITIMACY AND STABILITY IN A RENTIER STATE Among t...
This paper examines the impacts of electoral reforms and the Arab Spring on the activities of the Mu...
The noted remarkable capacity of the Gulf ruling families to mobilise external and internal sources ...
Kuwait is an exceptional country among the sheikhdoms, and its Shia also has special status compared...
This article analyses the evolution of the Islamist political associations and groups, both Shiites ...
This essay argues that Gulf monarchies have, hitherto, managed to maintain stability of their regime...
Předkládaná bakalářská práce se zabývá politickým systémem rentiérských států, kde je konkrétně sled...
While considerable existing scholarship examines the degree to which Muslim Brotherhood affiliates h...
This study, using contemporary history and empirical research, updates traditional rentier state the...
Based upon fieldwork carried out between 2012 and 2014, this article sheds light on the dynamics of ...
The democratic “exceptionalism” which the emirate of Kuwait boasted after 1962 did not survive the 2...
Since the unfolding of the Arab revolts in 2011, we have witnessed the rise and revolts of marginali...
Kuwait has been a precursor to democratization in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. The ti...
Depuis le début des révoltes arabes de 2011, on assiste, au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord à l’é...
This study re-examines the history of constitutional development in Kuwait. It argues that existing ...
THE GULF CRISIS (1990-91) & THE KUWAITI REGIME - LEGITIMACY AND STABILITY IN A RENTIER STATE Among t...
This paper examines the impacts of electoral reforms and the Arab Spring on the activities of the Mu...
The noted remarkable capacity of the Gulf ruling families to mobilise external and internal sources ...
Kuwait is an exceptional country among the sheikhdoms, and its Shia also has special status compared...
This article analyses the evolution of the Islamist political associations and groups, both Shiites ...
This essay argues that Gulf monarchies have, hitherto, managed to maintain stability of their regime...
Předkládaná bakalářská práce se zabývá politickým systémem rentiérských států, kde je konkrétně sled...
While considerable existing scholarship examines the degree to which Muslim Brotherhood affiliates h...
This study, using contemporary history and empirical research, updates traditional rentier state the...