The resilience of monarchies in the Greater Middle East: The lightning rod effect, crackdown on protest, and patrimonial links
https://doi.org/10.26794/2226-7867-2022-12-6-103-108
Abstract
The paper examines the factors that allowed the Greater Middle East monarchies to survive the protests known as the “Arab Spring”. The author considers the popular argument in scientific and media-political discourse about the culturally conditioned legitimacy of the Middle Eastern monarchies, and also presents several cases of successful anti-monarchist revolutions in the region (Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen). In addition, the work develops the idea that it can conditionally divide all the monarchies of the Greater Middle East into two types: individualistic and clan. The paper shows that patrimonial ties, which have been carefully built over several decades, are an important element in the stability of monarchies.
About the Author
S. V. Lebedev
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey V. Lebedev — Cand. Sci. (Pol.), Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Regional Studies and Foreign Policy
Moscow
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Lebedev S.V. The resilience of monarchies in the Greater Middle East: The lightning rod effect, crackdown on protest, and patrimonial links. Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University. 2022;12(6):103-108. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26794/2226-7867-2022-12-6-103-108
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