Kristin Diwan
Kristin Diwan

@kdiwaniya

3 Tweets 4 reads Apr 05, 2021
I'm not a Jordan expert. But I do have some thoughts about the increasing difficulty of containing dissent within ruling families.
I analyzed these new dynamics in this paper:
agsiw.org
Maintaining a publicly unified posture is critically important in monarchies. For this reason, all monarchies have mechanisms for addressing internal dissent and resolving it within the family.
However, many contemporary factors are making it more difficult to do this...
In this paper I identify 4 factors challenging monarchical stability:
- generational competition
- populist temptation
- foreign patrons
- the new info envt shaped by social media
ALL of these are relevant in Jordan today (though claims of foreign meddling may be suspect).

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