Genesis of the Western Model in Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq

Abstract

This chapter limits itself to a brief depiction of how the Western-state model entered the region that is today known as Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq. Analysis of how this alien model clashes with local conditions will occur in ensuing chapters. The analysis, and the model theory on which it is conducted, would be incomplete without an account of how Jordan, Kuwait, and Iraq came to be state entities. A historical discussion is therefore unavoidable. This discussion, however, has no ambition to advance a new historical method or to challenge existing methods. It aims merely to provide a calendar of events that will contextualize the analytical purpose of this work.