ABSTRACT
In this chapter, two episodes of intra-monarchic conflict that merit examination and explanation will be shortly discussed: the Saudi–Yemeni War of 1934 and the Qatar Crisis that erupted in 2017. The Saudi–Yemeni War was a war fought by monarchies; however, these monarchies were not quite yet nation-states, with fluid borders and little nation building, meaning that a precondition for SPSP (independent statehood) is lacking. In addition, all states in the region at that time were monarchies, meaning that the salience of monarchic ingroup identity was low, and according to the SPSP mechanism, an ingroup identity could not have developed at that time. It did, however, develop with the development into modern nation-states. The Qatar Crisis, on the other hand, is a case of severe monarchic conflict in a mature ingroup. Far from showing the nonexistence of ingroup identification, it shows how conflict plays out differently in an monarchic ingroup, making an escalation to war unlikely. Both cases still show limits and potential caveats to the theory illuminated by the other case studies.
