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The death of kuwaits emir and the end of an era in the gulf we look back on the life and legacy of shifts the bottom of the stock and ask what his passing means for the regions future this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im how much hes one of the last of the arab worlds old guard chefs about how the home of the soccer was known as the dean of arab diplomacy and an architect of kuwaits Foreign Policy for more than 50 years he has positioned the oil rich gulf state as a regional conciliator coates ruler died on tuesday at the age of 91 and was succeeded by his half brother a 2 year old. Will bring in our guests in a moment 1st joe manisha looks back at the life of kuwaits late ruler in recent years. Had become recognized and relied on as a regional mediator in 2017 when g. C. C. Member states saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates along with egypt accused qatar of supporting what they described as terrorism and imposed a land air and sea blockade it was him who intervened the kuwaiti amir attempted to broker a settlement urged for more dialogue between the gulf rivals and pushed for reforms to prevent future disputes. Because now the question is what to demand that we have discussed the situation in the country for most known for trade dispute between our brothers in the gulf region and our efforts to contain it chips obama was born in kuwait city in 1929 the son of a comma there job who was a mirror from 1904 to 1950 for 4 decades he held the post a foreign minister. In that time the oil rich country experienced huge Economic Growth but was also vulnerable to regional struggles although kuwait had supported the Iraqi Government during the nearly decade long war with iran in the 1980 s. Then president Saddam Hussein ordered his forces to invade kuwait in 1900. More than 1000. 00 civilians were killed and hundreds went missing during the 7 months iraqi occupation which triggered the 1st gulf war that same year. After u. S. Led air campaign forced iraqi troops out of kuwait so bach was closely involved in rebuilding his country. And in 2003 he was appointed Prime Minister at the time it was widely expected that his next role would be that of crown prince but in 2006 then. His half brother died a new enemy or saddam Abdullah Salim was sworn in almost immediately concerns were raised over the state of his health and sparked whats appeared to be a power struggle within the royal family after a tense 9 day reign the army or abdicated the cabinet swiftly nominated as the next leader ending what was seen as a major crisis. In 2015 a suicide bomb exploded in a packed mosque in the east of kuwait city killing 26 people. Then youre immediately rushed to the mosque despite security warning staring his sympathy with the people. In the long life of so often ahmed a slovak he would missed kuwait socalled golden years of Economic Growth and darker periods of conflict regional turmoil and political crises towards the end his will honed skills in diplomacy mediation were increasingly relied on by other gulf states a role here appear to welcome and one thats will be missed. All right lets bring in our guests in kuwait city but a safe assistant professor of history of Kuwait University and an on resident fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in must of abdullah aboard a visiting professor at was a university in tokyo and in washington d. C. Danny of offered director of the Gulf International forum a warm welcome to you all danny and let me start with you just how much did kuwait as a country change over the course of lifespan. The changes in kuwait were quite profound during his lifetime he was born n 1929 after the pearl crash and kuwait was suffering difficult Economic Situation and has yet to have discovered oil so hes seen kuwait i believe in his formative years. And its transition from from the oil era to the post oral oil area which we all know was a significant game changer. For kuwait as a modern state. And creates politics and its role in the region and Global International or global community. She is is a witness to. The. Transitions between. Primary security guarantors between ringback the. British and their withdraw our and then the americans role. Transitioning into the region as a security guarantee so hes witnessed vacuums of power which is really. Tantamount to what were experiencing today with the u. S. Changing its role in the region he has witnessed. The rise of arab nationalism. The rise of a slam it movements hes writ hes witnessed the iranian revolution the arab spring i mean you name it hes witnessed so many critical juncture in queens history and has you know manif then seemingly as seamlessly and. Is treading. It. As one of the. Key architectures of which Foreign Policy and also one of. As the individual that framed kuwait and the International RegionalGlobal Governance structure but that at a time when the politics in the gulf are so much more combative and confrontational than they used to be how difficult is it going to be for kuwaits new image shift no i have to carry on the legacy of. That kuwait is the country of her and what. A crock and many here there are in the country over there whether provide a platform for what i call graham kuwait and not run on im very. Very scared of the country and the crumpet leaders were talking about written that their village their interest in serving others bringing people together bring the nation together creating great mediating. Weve seen this throughout the history of modern kuwait there is no indication that the well transform regimes the were in ministry the the. Architect of course that make her nickname you mentioned but her train generation. There will be carrying the mantle and change no one. Going to meet her kuwait ive been close to reaching for many many decades you know and hell be over presenting that i thought i had a map grant kuwait with his own grave and. Abdullah 2020 has seen the last of our months old on caboose and now. The differences between their leadership styles and the styles of the younger and more assertive gulf leaders these days they couldnt be more striking what does this mean Going Forward for the region. 2020 has seen a lot a sea of correctly said mohammad there the passing away of 2 major leaders in the region. And survive but also 2020 had also seen the Coronavirus Spread the coronavirus the fall in the oil prices the price war mongst other conflicts in the region. Both through leaderless sultan couple us and shifts of a belong to the Oil Generation who have seen as my colleagues have said the transition from the priore oil. Period to their poor soil and they have seen the different if you like. Waves of different ideologies that were spreading into the region and they fought off all kinds of intervention in the region and kept their countries and independent and kept the region safe and stable and prosperous they have done a great job its its a Different School its a different generation and obviously at this time when the region is facing all these kind of challenges they are going to be missed greatly now we are seeing a new leaders emerging in the region and theyre not all the same. We are seeing some younger regional leaders who have. More ambitions in projecting their own countries and can do with powers beyond their territories and beyond their boundaries and im in that sense creating this destabilisation in the vision but were also equally seeing some Young Leaders who are much more acumen who are much more. Stable who have learned from the previous. Leaders and they want to continue with the same stabilising. Lancing. Safe policies that asian and the people in that isnt hopes for so we i think what were going to see in the future is a clash of if you like of visions or we are already what witnessing that where some leaders of some of these Young Leaders are. Hoping for more stability in the vision when when you know things around it especially the gulf region when things are around it is a very much in turmoil in and some young ambitious leaders who want to not just reject soft power but hard power and acting beyond that punching above their weight and acting beyond their capacity and perhaps creating major. Waves that can possibly hurt their engine so i think the future is is not certain with this kind of leadership especially as we see that the the gulf house or the Gulf Cooperation Council is no longer the uniting front or the uniting institution that you that this country is kind of coordinating their policies. And this is really worrying for not only for our generation for the young generation as to where the future. Its going to be how is this gulf unity and gulf stability and integration and call gratian what is it going at the time when we need it most it seems to be defragment doing and it is actually really. Shame what is happening in the region now. To pick up a little bit on what bob dole was saying i believe was talking a lot about a time of transition in the gulf these past few years weve been seeing this generational changing of the guard as it were so as the new emir shift in the off choice of crown prince and Prime Minister theyre going to be very closely watched are they not. Absolutely. Right now we will begin witnessing. Some political maneuvering and to wait for who will be. The next account branson also candidates running for the Upcoming Elections for the parliament. And. They are there is ringback kind of a short list that has been circulating circling above who will be the next crown prince and. Ive seen many have said it could be. Chef an asset and hammett and the shift from a shadow cabinet so these are really short lists that are plans that have been struck circulated. And. I think the kid Decision Maker will be here and. The ruling family and then what should happen once. They and out their crown prince the 6 parliament would have to have a majority vote approving that. If that doesnt happen and there is a there will be a suggestion of 3 provinces and acquitted parliament will vote on that on the 3. And so on theres a lot going on in kuwait actually by. 2021 and well see a quite a new government to kuwait which will be a very interesting start especially with the direction the economy is going in lieu of the. Adverse effects around the and back. But didnt kuwait does have one of the livelier political scenes in the region this is a country where elected m. P. s are able to call government ministers to account but the government there often also has a difficult relationship with parliament how is that relationship right now and is there political paralysis in kuwait let me begin with are we not going to change. And meet with any more american the region it already or time. Together if the primary memory. And weve seen. In iraq pronouncement even prior to the country gets hit hard in receiving a lot of the opposition figures growing. It in different viewpoints and not will continue and i think in terms of radicals i really i really would be more optimistic in that the new beginning bring written opportunity and review the next step but i believe. In iraq that they meant that the and move. Forward and ensure that were now in a concrete way know how to. Live. In trying to Work Together who are better not wait. A minute. Abdullah for someone who was so revered for his successful mediation efforts in the past how difficult was it personally for shifts that his efforts at at resolving the g. C. C. Crisis didnt come to fruition. As much as people will miss shifts about for all his efforts not only in the recent gulf crisis that have come back to that but in previous christ is where he. Managed to to and he worked as a conciliator mediator and he is. A you know a worldly kind of person a father of all he carried a lot of weight and had a lot of respect from all that leaders in the region and also beyond so his words his his his. Efforts were appreciated and he has managed to score so many different prices. In the past quite early aptly and employing you know the real quality. Diplomacy now something that we are also sorry about and im sure he is very sorry because he has. Made a lot of effort to. To try to sort of the recent crisis or the rift between the g. C. C. Those and the g. C. C. States he knew all deep in his heart that when the house falls. And that is the g. C. C. Its going to hurt everybody everybody is going to be homeless and he knew deep in his heart that only through corporation coordination integration that this region could be in peace and stability and it could see development and prosperity for its people. He knew that the region is also facing tremendous challenges internally centrally konami challenges economic challenges security challenges. Social challenges etc you know that also regional and International Powers have an interest in that age and when the house falls they will find ways in he tried very hard this fight his age old age and his ill health he tried very hard he if from one capital to the other trying to resolve this crisis and fortunately he did help in at least not making sure they doesnt go to another level that hed failed to or he could not do it at there at the very end and i think he is definitely he will be very sorry and we are all very sorry that this is not this is hudson not happened yet and i hope that the country is involved well. And out of what hes trying to do and resolve the crisis between themselves because its not just only his wish its the wish of people in the region to region more stable and more secure but there if we could talk for a moment about the big red line in modern kuwaiti history which of course is the gulf work in kuwait was a very Different Society before the gulf war than it is now and after the gulf war. Talk a little about the changes that were instituted in the country and role in that because he bridge both those areas. Where you think about there is a river come and that 191. 00 the liberation of kuwait ok though. Who we have not met with commitment to the constitution. 99. And this is something that wasnt there prior to 9 i mean. The country. Not the gulf parliaments. Reckon because of the constitution and this hasnt happened so theyve been going by the book the system has been unfolding as the laws of the country. Are there the people are and this has been on the political side now on the social side youve seen a concrete push toward granting Women Political right to happen greater and there i mean its been in the night 99 issued an edict granting them their growth but then that with turn down by parliament. And thats a good vibrancy of the system but when to provide became Prime Minister in 2000 and me precluded further which helped. Both in security in 2005 and also remain the for women minister later and then with the various women and and they were vibrant inclusive the women in the political them and seeing the waimea then be accepted as part of the goal made that was a taboo in the process so i think that things really could see the book in the months that theyre fired that i would like to focus on and thats it for must also engineer it quite well was the relationship with iraq and the whole notion of being that were excited that when the for them really was over him he was reaching out. The neighbor that iraq with for growth had to visit iraq down and where kuwait both of. The iraq reconstruction from it and those relationships are not open to the growth of the gratian era of hooey. The we only have a couple of minutes left but i want to ask you what are the major challenges facing kuwait right now. The main well there are several major challenges facing the weight. One is the economic challenge wait it has its finest deficit level and history. And reform it. Is is not that easy in kuwait as you know that the parliament is obviously something very positive and the state right and that the democrat democratic culture but at the same time there is always this sort of deadlock when it comes to reform between populist annelid. Populist elements of weight and. I guess business at least trying to preserve the status quo and it makes it very difficult for economic reform i think that is the major challenges challenges for the domestic situation in kuwait i think were still there and the transition in succession. And there of course there is there are regional challenges and you know the gulf region is undergoing. Major transition and vacuum of power and Different Actors are jockeying for power in the region and kuwait in very uncomfortable and that environment and losing share for us about what was was a great loss or that regard but im im confident and. In the future leadership being able to adjust the issues or i were going to have to leave it there weve run out of time thanks so much to all our guests but a safe i believe a board and than the vavasor. And thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website c. N. N. 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