{"id":34494,"date":"2013-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brookings.alley.test\/research\/kings-for-all-seasons-how-the-middle-easts-monarchies-survived-the-arab-spring\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:34:15","slug":"kings-for-all-seasons-how-the-middle-easts-monarchies-survived-the-arab-spring","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/research\/kings-for-all-seasons-how-the-middle-easts-monarchies-survived-the-arab-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings for All Seasons: How the Middle East\u2019s Monarchies Survived the Arab Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Arab monarchy has fallen during the Arab uprisings, and only one \u2013 Bahrain \u2013 has had a regime-shaking crisis. These regimes have been written off for decades as anachronisms. How did they weather the region\u2019s political storm better than their republican neighbors?<br \/>\nIn\u00a0this\u00a0Analysis\u00a0Paper\u00a0from the Brookings Doha Center, F. Gregory Gause, III\u00a0lays out the strategies that the Arab monarchies have utilized to stay in power.<br \/>\nThe democratic wave that has swept the Arab world has put new pressure on the Gulf monarchies to pursue reform. Still, Gause writes these regimes\u2019 hydrocarbon wealth and coalitions of domestic and international allies \u2013 their basic sources of strength \u2013 remain intact. Contrary to predictions of the monarchies\u2019 imminent demise, then, Gause argues that these rulers are here to stay.\u00a0He provides a detailed look at these regimes\u2019 responses to the Arab Spring, including their political reforms \u2013 and whether it is realistic to push them any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":464871,"template":"","class_list":["post-34494","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/34494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}