Kuwait gains independence from the United Kingdom

Category
Geography
Place
Kuwait
Date
1961
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Five of Saudi Arabia’s six neighbors on the Arabian Peninsula face the Persian and Oman gulfs: Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman (Fig. 6-17). All are known for their oil reserves, from which they earn a consequential foreign income. On a GDP per capita basis, these five are all high-income countries; they are also highly urbanized and quite modern in certain ways but traditional in others; and all are monarchies in the (Sunni) Islamic tradition. Their response to popular demands during the short-lived Arab Spring was comparable to that in Saudi Arabia: overly modest political concessions combined with increased public spending to appease the masses. Another similarity is that they each contain a substantial population of foreign workers. The Gulf States, overall, maintain cooperative relations with the United States. They are generally anti-jihadist, and their economies are becoming ever more globalized. The rise of these states over the past decade or so is the result of a planned diversification away from a singular reliance on oil revenues— similar to what Saudi Arabia is doing." [Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 17th Edition, p. 265]

This event is linked to the following periods

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Category
Geography
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2020
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