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A Boiling Kettle: Kuwait’s Escalating Political Crisis

Posted on October 28, 2012

By Fahed Al-Sumait
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The Kuwait National Assembly building
Power-sharing is always a messy affair. Under the best of circumstances striking a balance between competing forces is a perpetual work in progress, with political actors continually vying for control of the driver’s seat. In advanced democracies the structural checks and balances built into the [...]

A Setback for Democracy? Kuwait’s Parliament Dissolved by Constitutional Court | The MEI Conversations

Posted on June 21, 2012

With the Syrian state employing its air and land prowess on detractors; Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in de facto rule of the country; the Yemeni military pushing rebels back; and Libya on the brink of fragmentation, is the “Arab Spring” giving way to a blistering summer? Even in Kuwait, where democratic [...]