Andrew MacGregor Marshall’s A Kingdom in Crisis has been eagerly and long awaited by many Thailand watchers. Having resigned from a senior Reuters post in 2011 to publish a series of articles on Thailand’s political crisis based on leaked US diplomatic documents, “AMM” has become a vociferous critic of Thai elites and especially the monarchy, developing a wide following on social media. A Kingd...

Spain is a parliamentary monarchy. The 1978 Constitution followed a long period of dictatorship, after which the country underwent a major transformation of the State and its political structure. Territorially, the political organization of the Spanish State is made up of a central state and 17 highly decentralized regions (Comunidades Autónomas, autonomous communities) with their respective go...

The paper will include an analysis of the organization state power in medieval Bosnian with special reference to specifics position rulers, as well nobility gathered State Diet, and their relationship. Church also be considered a feature Bosnia, its influence on weakening central power, but limitation terms particularization state. Finally, powers Diet elect overthrow ruler view drawing conclus...

Monarchy is an interesting political system to study because it the earliest in world history and still exists today with various variations. This article focuses on Yogyakarta Sultanate which was founded 1755 as only monarchy that administratively of Republic Indonesia. qualitative finds Yogyakarta's fulfil holistic, adaptive elements combines old new so gets asymmetric decentralization status...

We report applications of language technologies to analyzing historical documents in the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thoughts and Literature (DSMCTL). We studied two historical issues with the reported techniques: the conceptualization of “華人” and the attempt to institute constitutional monarchy in the late Qing dynasty. We also discuss research challenges for supporting sophistica...

Session Two (Chapters 1-3) Chapter 1 is an intentionally grandiose introduction to the king. His name is presented twice at the outset, a stylistic touch that sets the stage for the continuous procession of dyads through the description of the Persian court (cf. Levenson, Esther 10-11). Honor and royalty are linked repeatedly throughout the chapter; names, titles, and positions seem to be of pr...