Planning for The Post-Saddam Era

摘要

On a recent evening in Kuwait City, as the region edges closer to war, one of the country's leading merchant families hosts a diwan-niya―a meeting where Kuwaitis exchange gossip and air their gripes. The distinguished group includes Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al Ahmad al Sabah. He is actually running Kuwait now that his cousins, Emir Jaber al Ahmad al Sabah and Crown Prince Saad al Abdullah al Sabah, both in their mid-70s, are in poor health.