Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State

ISBN-13: 9780755650989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 280 str.

Azoulay Rivka Azoulay

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Authoritarian regimes and the crucial role of the periphery Part I: When the past holds a mirror to the present: traditional politics and the pre-oil authority system of the Al-Sabah (1716-1938) I: Deconstructing the dominant Sunna hadar narrative II: Communal segregation and stratification in pre-oil Kuwait: hadar, Shi’a and the early-settled tribes III. Changes in the authority system: Mubarak Al-Sabah, colonialism and alliances with non-core elites IV. The crystallization of alliances with non-core elites: the 1938 Majlis movement Part II. Oil and the consolidation of a tribal authoritarian shaykhdom: Ruler-ruled relations 1961-1990 I: External threat consolidates inter-elite power-sharing (musharaka) II: External threat consolidates inter-elite power-sharing (musharaka) III: The rise of new middle-class elites and the decline of the hadar elites IV: Socio-political change within Kuwait’s Shi’a population V. Competitive authoritarians: parliamentary life (1961-1990) Part III. New forces of globalization and the rise of the tribal periphery in Kuwait (1990-2014) I: The birth of a tribal opposition II. Beyond tribalism: social dimensions of a broader middle-class struggle III. Splits in the regime’s ‘asabiyya: royal infighting and succession IV. Limits of political patronage vis-à-vis non-core elites (2011-2014) Conclusion Bibliography