A sophisticated investigation of the shifting tides of
democratic governance in modern Kuwait from 1921 to the present
based on interviews both with political activists and members of
the political elite, "Stories of Democracy" sheds light on a wide
array of issues concerning Middle Eastern politics and democratic
institutions in general.
Mary Ann T?treault explores how various political factions have
sought to advance their own notions of Kuwaiti history and politics
through distinctive popular appeals: (1) pro-democracy forces
focusing on Kuwait's relationship to the universal values of the
democratic world around them, and (2) anti-democrats proffering
Arab and Muslim religious and cultural traditions. She explores how
such dramatic events as the suspension of the Kuwaiti constitution
in 1986 and the invasion by Iraq in 1990 occasioned major shifts in
the course of the democracy movement. The current running through
virtually all of the nation's political drama is the monolithic
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), used by the government as an
instrument of economic strength to safeguard sovereignty in the
absence of military might.
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