ABSTRACT
The two case studies of Chapter 5 conduct “quasi-experiments”: if shared monarchy is important for peace, what happens when one monarchy in the pair breaks down and changes its political system? These cases therefore serve to separate the effect of joint monarchism from other factors. As in Chapter 4, the first case is a “more likely” case of ingroup identification and subsequent breakdown of relations after regime change, namely Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations, which led to an all-out war in the post-monarchic period. The second case explores the limits of monarchic ingroup identification for a dyad that had strong asymmetries and dissimilarities even during their jointly monarchic period in the case of Iran and the UAE but still had significantly more cooperative relations than after regime change.
