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Durable, Yet Different: Monarchies in the Arab Spring
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Abstract Over three years into the Arab Spring, the Middle East is characterized by a striking difference in durability between monarchies and republics. Beyond this difference, some significant gaps within the group of the eight Middle East monarchies have so far been overlooked. Drawing on the existing mon... mehr
Over three years into the Arab Spring, the Middle East is characterized by a striking difference in durability between monarchies and republics. Beyond this difference, some significant gaps within the group of the eight Middle East monarchies have so far been overlooked. Drawing on the existing monarchy research, we first make the case that there were three distinct types of durable monarchies prior to the Arab Spring. Confronted with social and political crises, each type reacted differently to the challenges presented to them after 2011. While five "rentier" and "dynastic" Gulf monarchies (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (United Arab Emirates)) mainly rely on material distribution and family rule, the non-oil "linchpins" of Jordan and Morocco, attracting additional external funds, undertook constitutional changes in an attempt at procedural legitimation. The Sultanate of Oman, however, falls in between. This "linchtier" monarchy used modest material cooptation, a selected personal reshuffing at the top of the regime as well as targeted institutional adaptations. We illustrate our findings with similarly structured brief case studies of the three prototypes of Qatar, Jordan and Oman.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Nahost; Jordanien; Oman; Katar; Monarchie; autoritäres System; politische Macht; Legitimation; Machtsicherung; politische Herrschaft; Reformpolitik; politische Stabilität; arabische Länder; Persischer Golf
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
arabischer Frühling
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2014
Seitenangabe
S. 163-179
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Arabian Studies, 4 (2014) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2014.971647
ISSN
2153-4780
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)