The Resilience of Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait is a must-read. Courtney Freer promises and delivers a tour de force using "parliamentary elections and ideological mobilization" to produce the most comprehensive political history of Kuwait to date. Freer's deep understanding of Kuwait and skillful incorporation of Kuwaiti voices and scholarship has led to fresh analysis that rightly centers people and elections in Kuwait's political system.

Courtney Freer is Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Emory University. She previously served as Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science. Courtney's work focuses on domestic politics and foreign policies of the Gulf states and the interplay of Islam and politics more broadly. She is the author of Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies (OUP, 2018) and co-author with Alanoud Alsharekh of Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf: State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE (IB Tauris 2021).