العلاقات بين الكويت و دول كومنولث : الدول المستقلة و آفاق تطويرها

Abstract EN

This monograph purports to review, and account for the status of relations between Kuwait and the twelve states comprising the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in addition to assessing the maindilemmas of these relations and suggesting modalities for their futurepromotion.

In order to achieve these objectives the monograph placedKuwait-CIS relations within analytical frameworks which attempt toaccount for relations between two unequal parties, a small state and a setof larger power which used to form together the second superpower until1991.

How does a small state deal with bigger powers, and how do thesepowers deal with a state which seems not to fare high on their globalforeign policy agenda especially if parties are different in most dimensions.How does a small power achieve its security in a turbulent region throughdeveloping relations with a big power? And what modalities are pursuedby that state to balance its relations with various big powers? How does asuperpower (the Soviet Union), or a big power (Russia) formulaterelations with a non-neighboring small power? The monograph begins bydefining the parties, Kuwait and the CIS states, and outlining theanalytical frameworks for assessing their relations.

These are the nationalattributes, the international distance, and the global system frameworks.

Itthen outlines the mutual interests between the parties upon which relationswould be built.

In the next sections, the monograph reviews the history of Kuwait-CIS relations since the days of Czarist Russia, and reviews political, economic, and cultural relations between Kuwait and the CIS,including the New Silk Road as a new framework for these relations.

Themonograph also reviews relations between Kuwait and Russia andbetween Kuwait and Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.

Itconcludes by reviewing the main dilemmas of Kuwait-CIS relations andpoints out to the theoretical implications of the analysis, in addition tosuggesting specific policies for promoting these relations