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Kuwaits Foreign Policy

First published 1990 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge

52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Assiri, Abdui-Reda.

Kuwaits foreign policy : city-state in world politics / by Abdui
Reda Assiri.

p. cm. (Westview special studies on the Middle East)

ISBN 0-8133-7636-X

1. KuwaitForeign relations. 2. KuwaitForeign relationsArab
countries. 3. Arab countriesForeign relationsKuwait.
4. KuwaitForeign economic relations. I. Title. II. Series.

DS247.K88A87 1990

327.5367dc19

88-19056

CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01277-9 (hbk)

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Appendixes

AAM	Air-to-Air Missile
ACDA	U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C.
AFV	Armored Fighting Vehicle
AIM	Air Intercept Missile
APC	Armored Personnel Carrier
AShM	Air-to-Ship Missile
ASM	Air-to-Surface Missile
ATGW	Antitank Guided Weapon
ATM	Antitank Missile
AWACS	Airborne Warning and Control System
BP	British Petroleum
CBK	Central Bank of Kuwait
CENTCOM	U.S. Central Command
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
CRS	Congressional Research Service
FGA	Fighter/Ground Attack
FY	Fiscal Year
GCC	Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, or the Gulf Cooperation Council
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GNP	Gross National Product
IISS	The International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
ILO	International Labor Organization, Geneva
IMF	International Monetary Fund
KD	Kuwaiti Dinar
KFAED	Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
KFTCIC	Kuwait Foreign Trade, Contracting, and Investment Company
KIA	Kuwait Investment Authority
KIC	Kuwait Investment Company
KIO	Kuwait Investment Office, London
KM	Kilometer
KOC	Kuwait Oil Company
KOTC	Kuwait Oil Tanker Company
KPC	Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
KPI	Kuwait Petroleum International
LCM	Landing Craft, Mechanized
LCU	Landing Craft, Utility
LPG	Liquefied Petroleum Gas
M b/d	Million barrels per day
MBT	Main Battle Tank
ME/GNP	Military Expenditure as Percentage of Gross National Product
MIDEASTFOR	Middle East Force
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
OAPEC	Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
OECD	Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OPEC	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
PFLP	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PLO	Palestine Liberation Organization
RDF	Rapid Deployment Force
ROPME	Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment, Kuwait
SAM	Surface-to-Air Missile
SIPRI	Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm
SP	Self-Propelled
SSM	Surface-to-Surface Missile
UAE	United Arab Emirates
ULCC	Ultralarge Crude Carrier (Oil Tanker)
UN	United Nations
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNIIMOG	United Nations Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group
UNRWA	United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees
USGPO	United States Government Printing Office
VLPC	Very Large Petroleum Carrier

Kuwait, a welfare city-state in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf (henceforth the Gulf), has gained a preeminence in international politics in recent years. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the country played a significant role in inter-Arab political and economic spheres. Since the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait, being geostrategically located in a cumbersome triangle between the two combatants and Saudi Arabia, has undertaken a series of risky political maneuvers to maintain its security interests. The Gulf war has exposed the extent of Kuwaits fragility and its vulnerabilities, both internally and externally.

Despite worldwide attention from decision makers, the media, academia, and the wider public, there has been little if anything published on Kuwaits foreign policy per se. The following study attempts to fill this gap. The book is geared for students and specialists in political science and economics, governmental officials, the business community, media persons, and members of the general public with interests in Gulf politics, Middle Eastern affairs, and the role of small states in world politics.

The book assesses the dynamics of Kuwaiti foreign policy since 1961 (the year of independence) and explores the role of Kuwait as a small state in international politics. It seeks to analyze the impact of ideology, religion, and value systems on Kuwaiti foreign policy as well as the impact of domestic forces (elections, the constitution, the free press, associations, and ethnic groupings) on political actors in the small state and their concomitant ramifications for external behavior. It also examines how decision makers adopt different forces to achieve national goals and how and why a small state such as Kuwait can maintain a high profile in its foreign affairs.

Although the study covers almost three decades of Kuwaits foreign policy, it should not be construed as a holistic chronicle of each and every event in the states external conduct. Rather, it emphasizes major developments, phenomena, and trends that have shaped Kuwaits foreign policy and left imprints in the course of Kuwaits external relations and the countrys role in world politics. Certain case studies demonstrate this theme of political analysis and dynamism. The book by no means intends to rationalize Kuwaits external behavior; rather, it attempts to critically and systematically analyze and explain Kuwaiti foreign policy in a balanced and objective manner.

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