Monarchies are often popular with minorities.

True monarchies, like Jordan, have a legitimacy and stability that the leaders of faux monarchies (Syria, Libya, and Yemen), as well as the Iranian regime, do not.

Even the traditional Arab monarchies and Emirates are changing in its wake.

The Gulf monarchies are trying to ride this tiger militarily against Iran.

Like most monarchies, a great deal of power was held by the aristocracy.

Unlike constitutional monarchies, France does not distinguish between the symbol and the reality of power.

Of course, the Arab monarchies are not entirely immune to the threat of popular uprisings.

World War I destroyed many of Europe's empires and monarchies, and weakened Britain and France.

The monarchies remained in power for decades, but the Industrial Revolution and the advent of democracy had become unstoppable.

Its revolution in 1789 initiated a long period of profound instability, featuring two empires, three monarchies, and five republics.

In the case of the Gulf monarchies, we might need a bit of time to answer such a question.

Most of Latin America, except for Brazil and Chile, are elective monarchies, a modernized version of the old caudillo tradition.

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A democratic tide seems to be sweeping across the Arab world. Even the traditional Arab monarchies and Emirates are changing in its wake.

Although the US and the Gulf monarchies share a fear of Iran, much else about Iraq and the region is now in dispute.

The legitimacy of hereditary monarchies, a principle established by Metternich, the architect of the post Napoleonic order, eventually prevailed in the 1848 European Spring.

Monarchies in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and most of the Gulf dynasties still appear to their subjects to be more acceptable than secular autocracies.

Kuwait s political system is considered the most modern among the Arab Gulf sheikhdoms and monarchies, because all citizens men and women alike elect its parliament.

But that does not exculpate the Arab fundamentalist monarchies for their role in reviving the seventh century vision that ISIS (and others) seek to realize.

The 20th century saw republicanism become an important idea in much of the Middle East, as monarchies were removed in many states of the region.

Suppose within the girdle of these walls are now confined two mighty monarchies, whose high upreared and abutting fronts the perilous narrow ocean parts asunder.

Indeed, the uprising by Bahrain s Shia majority has now become a struggle for regional mastery between Iran and the US backed Sunni monarchies in the Gulf.

Syria s readmission into the Arab consensus and financial support from the Gulf monarchies for abandoning the Shi a alliance with Iran and Hezbollah would also be significant gains.

In none of the Arab monarchies have protesters gone after the king s head their demand is for limits on absolute power, not an end to the monarchy.

It has been linked to social class, where monarchies, the aristocracy, nobility or upper classes had their children wet nursed in the hope of becoming pregnant again quickly.

He argued there were good monarchies and bad ones, good democracies and bad ones, and good church hierarchies and bad ones what mattered was the piety of the people.

And whereas then monarchies, palaces and forts dominated every city skyline and looked permanent and confident, today it's the gleaming towers of the banks which dominate every big city.

It created what is called in Arabic a Mukhabarat (security services) state, very much like what is prevalent in almost all Arab countries Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, republics and monarchies alike.

Even the conservative states of the Arabian Peninsula are embroiled in lively disputes about women ministers, Shia representation, Islamist participation in the political process, and even the future of their ruling monarchies.

With scores of companies and municipalities signing up, and even the monarchies of Denmark and Sweden turning off the lights in their many palaces, the World Wildlife Fund quickly called it an amazing success.

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Most of Latin America, except for Brazil and Chile, are elective monarchies, a modernized version of the old caudillo tradition. Russia, after a brief attempt at democracy under Boris Yeltsin, has reverted to a form of unenlightened despotism under Vladimir Putin.

Several of the Sunni ruled Gulf monarchies view Syria s crisis and the prospect of Assad s demise as an opportunity to compensate for Iraq s rapprochement with Iran following the fall of Saddam Hussein s Sunni regime and the emergence of a Shia led government.

It is unreasonable in this democratic age to pay special deference to people solely on the basis of their birth. Are we really supposed to admire and love modern monarchies, such as the British House of Windsor, even more so today, just because some new princess has been plucked from the middle class?