1st Edition

Kuwait and the Gulf Small States and the International System

By Hassan Ali Al-Ebraheem Copyright 1984
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

A major result of the Second World War was the emergence of small states which vastly increased the membership of the international system. While a number of small states existed before the war many of these had made no effort to participate actively in the system; since then, the doctrine of equality of states has been established, in theory at least, through their admission to the UN. This... Read more

1. The International System: the Changing Scene  2. What is a Small State?  3. Small States and the United Nations  4. The Economies, Foreign Policies, and Security of Small States, with Examples from the Gulf  5. The Strategic Importance of the Gulf: US and Soviet Foreign Policy  6. The Gulf Cooperation Council  7. Kuwait: a Small State Model

Biography

Hassan Ali Al-Ebraheem