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 …

The'Arab Spring'has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in
the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from …

The emergence of hereditary republican dynasties is part of a regional trend, raising
concerns about the decline in democracy, government accountability, nepotism, and grand …

Many countries in the Arab world have incorporated Islam into their state-and nation-
building projects, naming it the'religion of the state'. Regulating Islam offers an empirically …

The protests that began in Tunisia in December 2010, and quickly spread across the Arab
world, have drawn significant attention to the impact of militaries and coercive institutions on …

This article places the “monarchy-republic gap” into a larger theoretical context of shifting
paradigms of research to explain why monarchies in the Gulf faced fewer protests than other …

This study, using contemporary history and empirical research, updates traditional rentier
state theory, which largely fails to account for the existence of opposition movements, by …

This article revisits prevailing ideas about the legitimation of monarchical rule through the
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) by emphasizing the neo-traditional rule of the GCC …

ABSTRACT How did the Middle Eastern and North African monarchies survive the
revolutionary fervor of the Arab Spring? Despite the similarity of slogans, tactics, and …

This chapter traces the development of the author's research agenda on the politics of the
Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf region in light of the two research programs in which he has …