Democratization in the Arab World?: Emirs and Parliaments in the Gulf

Issue Date October 2002
Volume 13
Issue 4
Page Numbers 41-47
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How well-founded are Western concerns that the nascent parliaments of Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain will be captured by antidemocratic Islamists and lead to the ‘Talibanization’ of the Gulf?

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