The Kuwait Crisis of 1990–1991: The Turning Point in India’s Middle East Policy

Md Muddassir Quamar and P. R. Kumaraswamy

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2019, vol. 6, issue 1, 75-87

Abstract: Abstract The Iraqi invasion, occupation, and annexation of Kuwait in August 1990 exposed the soft underbelly of India’s policy toward the Middle East in general and the Persian Gulf region in particular. While safe evacuation of the Indian workers was a prime concern, some of the steps in that direction proved counterproductive. However, in the long run, the Kuwait crisis resulted in India making two critical steps that shaped its post-Cold War policy toward the region: diminishing influence of the Palestinian cause in its engagements with the Arab world and economic substance replacing political rhetoric.

Keywords: Kuwait crisis; Gulf War; India–Gulf; India–Middle East; Palestine; Israel–Palestine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/2347798918812287

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