ABSTRACT
The discussion in the preceding chapter examined both the opportunities for and constraints on the US and Kuwaiti governments’ attempts to consolidate their bilateral relations in the 1960s and 1970s-relations which are best described as a mixture of ups and downs. As a tiny city-state, Kuwait is always believed to be under pressure from its stronger counterpart for which Kuwait is no match militarily, economically and politically. But the US government’s hope of bringing Kuwait under its influence has not been thus far without difficulties.
