Bahrain - The Exception in the Gulf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East Near Orient grade: 20 University of Tubingen (Institut für Politikwissenschaft) course: Current Issues in the Mediterranean: Revolutions in the Arab World language: English abstract: Bahrain is one of the countries of the so-called Arab Spring but it differs from other revolutionary states: First of all it is the only one of the six Gulf monarchies in which the existing ruling system was seriously threatened by the demonstrations. Also the protests as such have a special significance not only because with up to a hundred thousand people taking it to the streets they were remarkably bigger than the protests in other monarchies but also because compared to the population these were probably the biggest demonstrations in the Arab world. Nevertheless the protests have (up until now) failed.