While iraq is undoubtedly less threatening than it was under saddam and still subject to american influence , the gulf monarchies now regard it as an iranian satellite .
Maintaining the stability of the pro-western gulf monarchies , deterring iran , and securing the region 's energy resources will continue to be an american national interest for the foreseeable future .
Among all the monarchies of the gulf , kuwait has easily the most powerful parliament-up to the point where it collides directly with the interests of the ruling al sabah family .
No less so in the nominal republics of the period , each as brutal a dictatorship as the next , and most no less dynastic than the monarchies themselves .
这一时期,在正常的共和制国家中也如此,独裁者一个比一个残忍,且存在的时间也与君主国的朝代一样漫长。
Rather than inspiring the persian gulf 's more authoritarian monarchies to reform , its 46-year-old experiment with limited democracy has often seemed a model to be avoided .
It provides a history of power of religion , monarchies and of communication and technologies at different periods of time .
它提供了在不同时期,宗教的权力,君主制的历史,同样也提供了通讯和科技史。
All these milder monarchies now risk slipping into the habits of the gulf 's worst human-rights offenders , bahrain and saudi arabia .
所有这些比较温和的君主制国家现在都在冒险重蹈巴林和沙特的覆辙,这两个国家的人权状况是最为恶劣的。
Nevertheless , few regimes have been more staunchly obedient to the us than the assorted tribal monarchies of the area , or the egyptian dictatorship .
然而,很少有政权能比该地区混杂的部落君主制政权或埃及的独裁政权更为坚定地服从美国了。
Our ancestors deferred to the monarchies before the age of enlightenment , and as individuals we all did it as children and later as teenagers .