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Middle East Politics, Lecture 21: Monarchies and Oil in the Arab Gulf (Part One)

In this two-part lecture, I discuss the origins of the monarchies in the Arab Gulf and how they evolved until the present day. This includes Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait. In the process, I discuss what monarchies are and how each of these monarchies' rule. Thirdly, I discuss the importance of religious legitimacy and the oil economy to the stability of these regimes, and the challenges this creates for these countries in the future. Lastly, I discuss the reasons why monarchies have survived in the Arab Gulf when they have all but disappeared in most other parts of the world.