Period Trends and New Challenges

Abstract

Many of the internal security challenges facing the Kuwaiti leadership today and on the horizon are more than vaguely reminiscent of those during the trying period under review in this book. They range from terrorist targeting of local and foreign interests in the country, to demands for the dilution of al-Sabah power. This final chapter reviews the primary findings, trends and conclusions for the period under examination in the study, and then discusses how lessons from that period can inform some of the new challenges for the Kuwaiti leadership in the twenty-first century.