The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE

The book provides s unique view of Kuwaiti. The discussion goes beyond superficial description that existed in many books. it provides deep and rich investigation of the reasons behind the current status. Another quality of the book is its inclusion of almost all relevant literature and scholars and contextualize their contributions in sophisticated manner.I really enjoyed the book and consider it one of the best that I read in such subject. I highly recommend to anyone interested in analytical view of GCC countries and specially Kuwait.

This is an outstanding discussion of the damages caused to democratic rule in the rentier state.