On May 4 1999, the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah ... on the grounds that popular political participation would resume in the summer. Other voices, however, mainly from opposition ...

Kuwait Stock Exchange, Jack Dabaghian, Kuwait Ministry of Information / flickr.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). The MENA region has in the past served as inspiration for political economy theories that have ...