F. Gregory Gause III, professor of political science at the University of Vermont and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, is the author, most recently, of The International Relations of the Persian Gulf (2010).
The “Arab Spring” has been very hard on autocratic presidents but so far has left the Arab world’s monarchies intact. How and why have Arab royals been able to resist the tide of protest?
The uprisings that swept the Arab world beginning in 2010 toppled four entrenched rulers and seemed to create a political opening in a region long impervious to democratization.
