?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.lse.ac.uk%2F55337%2F&rft.title=The+reconstruction+of+post-war+Kuwait%3A+a+missed+opportunity%3F&rft.creator=Barakat%2C+Sultan&rft.creator=Skelton%2C+John&rft.subject=HC+Economic+History+and+Conditions&rft.subject=JA+Political+science+(General)&rft.description=The+reconstruction+of+Kuwait%2C+following+its+occupation+by+Saddam+Hussein%E2%80%99s+Iraq+in+1990%2C+constitutes+a+significant+though+rarely+studied+episode+of+post-war+recovery.+On+the+eve+of+liberation+in+1991%2C+Kuwait+faced+a+number+of+challenges+including+physical+rehabilitation+and+reconstruction%2C+political+and+constitutional+issues%2C+reconciling+a+deeply+divided+population+and+socio-economic+recovery.+The+passing+of+more+than+twenty+years+since+Kuwait%E2%80%99s+liberation+allows+the+paper+to+reflect%2C+from+a+long-term+perspective%2C+on+the+decisions+which+were+taken+following+liberation+and+how+these+have+impacted+the+country%E2%80%99s+subsequent+political%2C+social+and+economic+trajectory.+The+timeliness+of+such+an+examination+has+been+highlighted+by+the+contemporary+ongoing+political+crisis+in+Kuwait+in+the+context+of+the+Arab+Spring%2C+at+the+centre+of+which+stands+a+widely+perceived%2C+long-standing+deficit+of+the+Al+Sabah+regime%E2%80%99s+political+legitimacy.+The+paper+argues+that+had+Kuwait%E2%80%99s+reconstruction+assumed+a+different+shape%2C+it+is+conceivable+that+the+country+would+have+experienced+a+profoundly+different+development+trajectory+over+the+following+two+decades.+The+authors+contend+that+Kuwait%E2%80%99s+contemporary+political+and+socio-economic+crises+have+their+roots+in+a+post-war+reconstruction+model+which+delivered+substantial+success+in+physical+and+rapid+macro-economic+recovery%2C+but+which+did+not+fully+realise+opportunities+to+establish+an+accountable+and+trusted+governance+system%2C+promote+reconciliation+and+equality+between+divided+groups%2C+and+encourage+sustainable+social+and+economic+development.+The+paper+argues+that+the+opportunity+to+deliver+long-term+benefits+was+undermined+by+a+non-holistic+post-war+vision+dominated+by+notions+of+regime+security+which+in+turn+necessitated+renewed+post-war+business-as-usual+authoritarianism%2C+exclusionary+nationalist+policies+and+the+recreation+of+the+pre-war+power-for-welfare+political+trade-off.&rft.publisher=The+London+School+of+Economics+and+Political+Science&rft.date=2014&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.lse.ac.uk%2F55337%2F1%2FBarakat_Skelton_2014.pdf&rft.identifier=++Barakat%2C+Sultan+and+Skelton%2C+John++(2014)+The+reconstruction+of+post-war+Kuwait%3A+a+missed+opportunity%3F++Kuwait+Programme+on+Development%2C+Governance+and+Globalisation+in+the+Gulf+States+(37).+The+London+School+of+Economics+and+Political+Science%2C+London%2C+UK.++++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lse.ac.uk%2FIDEAS%2Fprogrammes%2Fkuwait%2Fresearch%2Fpapers%2Fpost-war-Kuwait.aspxwww.lse.ac.uk%2FIDEAS%2Fprogrammes%2Fkuwait%2Fhome.aspx&rft.language=eng