Arab Gulf States and Crisis Management: The Invasion and Liberation of Kuwait as a Model
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The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the liberation war of 1991, demonstrated a key example of managing a regional crisis; one that simultaneously had all three elements of a crisis: a sudden event, requiring critical decisions, in a limited time period. This article aims to analyse the mechanisms of managing that crisis.