Kuwait has a new ruler who now must fix its old problems
But there are differences in this succession as well as similarities, and how they play out will help dictate whether 83-year-old Emir Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah can break the OPEC member state free of its paralysis. Fledgling efforts to reconcile the Arab Gulf’s sole elected parliament with a prime minister’s office filled by royal …