This chapter discusses the geopolitical historical context of the rise of ruling families in Kuwait and Qatar, with emphasis on political, geographic and economic factors. To start with, the present-day territories of Qatar and Kuwait were presumed to be scarcely populated by the ancestors of today’s inhabitants until the second half of seventeenth century.

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The Grand Bargains and the Emergence of Ruling Families

  • Maryam Al-Kuwari

摘要

This chapter discusses the geopolitical historical context of the rise of ruling families in Kuwait and Qatar, with emphasis on political, geographic and economic factors. To start with, the present-day territories of Qatar and Kuwait were presumed to be scarcely populated by the ancestors of today’s inhabitants until the second half of seventeenth century.