Implications For U.S. Foreign Policy
Herb, an American author, suggests that the U.S. government pressure the monarchies to liberalize as a means of increasing American moral authority and soft power internationally. The traditional argument against exerting such pressure is that liberalization is liable to bring an unfriendly regime to power through revolution. Herb argues that none of the Arab dynastic monarchies have ever fallen to revolution, and that they are so stable that little risk of revolution exists.
Read more about this topic: All In The Family: Absolutism, Revolution, And Democracy In The Middle Eastern Monarchies
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