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the death of kuwait's 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 region's future this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm how much he's one of the last of the arab

world's old guard chefs about how the soccer was known as the dean of arab diplomacy and an architect of kuwait's 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 kuwait's 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 no question they're going to demand that we

have discussed the situation in the country for most unfortunate 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 of 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 1998. 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 amir jobber lama do the job of his half brother died a new amir saddam abdullah salim was sworn in almost immediately concerns were raised over the state of his health and sparked what's appeared to be a power struggle within the royal family after a tense 9 day reign the army or abdicated the quaids he cabinet swiftly nominates and 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 quaint city killing 26 people. there near immediately rushed to the mosque despite security warning staring his sympathy with

the people. in the long life of some of the slovak he would missed kuwait so-called 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 that's will be missed. all right let's 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. then you have 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 he seems kuwait i i believe in his formative years. and it's transition for our for our. oil iraq 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. he is he 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 he's witnessed vacuums of power which is really. tantamount to what we're 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 his rig he's witnessed the iranian revolution the arab spring i mean you name it he's witnessed so many critical juncture in kuwait history and has you know manif then seemingly this 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 in the international regional global 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 kuwait's 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 brand on i'm very. very scared of the country and the crumpet leaders we're talking about reparative

therapy their ability to meet their interests in serving others bringing people together bring the nation together creating great mediating. we've seen this throughout the history of modern kuwait there is no indication that well transform regimes the were ministry be the. architect of course and make her nickname you mentioned but her train generation. who wait there will be carrying the mantle and change no one. going to meet or kuwait i've been close to reaching for many many decades you know and he'll 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 couldn't be more striking what does this mean going forward for the region. 2020 has seen a lot a sea of correctly said mohamed they're the passing away of 2 major leaders in the region. shifts of up but also 2020 had also seen the coronavirus a spread of 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 the post oil 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 it's it's a different school it's 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 they're not all the same. we are seeing some younger regional leaders who have. more ambitions in projecting their own countries and countries powers beyond their

territories and beyond their boundaries and i'm in that sense creating this destabilisation in the vision but we're 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 isn't hopes for so we i think what we're 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 region when when you know things around it especially the gulf region when things

around it is a very much in turmoil and some young ambitious leaders who want to not to just project 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 that asian 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. it's going to be how is this gulf unity and gulf stability and integration and called ration 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 we've 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 they're going to be very closely watched are they not. absolutely. right now we will begin witnessing. some political maneuvering and kuwait 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 shortlist that has been circulating circling above who will be the next crown prince 'd and. i've seen many have said it could be an asset or. chef an asset and hammett and the shift mashallah. so these are really short lists that are plans that have been struck circulated. and. i think i think a decision maker will be here and. the ruling family and then what should happen once. they and out their conference the 6 way the parliament would have to have a majority vote approving that. if that doesn't happen then there is a there will be a suggestion of 3 provinces and acquitted parliament will. vote on that

on the 3. and so on there's a lot going on in kuwait actually by. 2021 and will 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 from the and back but the 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 monarch in the region it already. got or if the primary new member. and we've seen. no run pronouncement even prior to the contrary if. you think a lot of the opposition figures are trying. it in different viewpoint and not will continue and i think in terms of robert i really i really would be more optimistic in that the new beginning bring written opportunity and review would be the next step but i believe. in iraq that they meant that the and move. forward ensure that we're now in a concrete way now how to. live. in

trying to work together to work 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 didn't 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 crises where he. managed to all too 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

is 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 really quick. diplomacy now something that we are also sorry about and i'm 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. it's 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 but despite 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 doesn't go to

another level that he'd 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 hud's not happened yet and i hope that the country is involved well. and out of what he's trying to do and resolve the crisis between themselves because it's not just only his wish it's 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.

have not met with commitment to the constitution. 99. and this is something that wasn't there prior to 9 i mean with. the country. not the gulf parliament. we reckon because of the constitution and this hasn't happened so they've been going by the book the system has been unfolding as the laws of the country. are their people are and this has been on the political side now on the social side you've seen a concrete push toward granting women political right to happen greater and there i mean again in the night 99 were issued an edict granting them their growth but then that with turn down by parliament. and that's

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 and women in the political scene them and seeing the waimea then be accepted as part of the go made that was a taboo in the process so i think nothing really could see the book in the months that they're tired that i would like to focus on and that's it for must also engineer it quite well was the relationship with iraq and the whole notion of being that we're excited that when the present review was over him he was reaching out. the neighbor that iraq with the for goal had to visit iraq down

and we're kuwait both because we need that iraq reconstruction from it and those relationships are so that does not focus to the cause the gratian area 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 weight has its highest deficit level and history. and reform it. is is not that easy in kuwait as you know at the parliament is obviously something very positive and we stay private 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 analysts and populist elements of

kuwait and. i guess the 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 we're still there and the transition in succession. and there of course there is the regional challenge 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 schiffer sabbar it was was a great loss well that regard but i'm i'm confident and. in the future leadership

being able to adjust the issues or i we're going to have to leave it there we've 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. dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me i'm a gentleman and the entire team here in doha by for now. 2

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