Kuwait: the Growth of a Historic Identity

During the 1990s a great deal of scholarly effort has been focused on the particular circumstances of Kuwait’s emergence as a state, and as a result much new material has been brought to light. This series of papers given at Peterhouse College, Cambridge on 19 May 1995 by five leading scholars (Ben J. Slot, Ulrich W. Harmann, Grigori Bondarevsky, Richard Schofield & Suhail Shuhaiber), explores the historical, political and social processes which governed the birth, survival,prosperity and ultimatesovereignty of this unique Arab maritime policy.