Authoritarian governments and regimes always depend on concentrating national wealth and resources in their hands. This means to put those resources and financial assets at the disposal of the central government as much as it can reach of these resources. Therefore, there is no authoritarian regime, government or country without a socialist – or something alike as central or directed by state - economy and economic management or approach. Actually, this is an indispensable necessity to authoritarian and totalitarian systems.

These financial means are indispensable to sustain authoritarian and totalitarian systems and their ability to continue as governing systems by the ruling regimes. Therefore, the ability of an authoritarian or totalitarian regime or dictator to rule and to continue ruling in addition to its overall strength as a ruling and controlling entity are to be increased along with the increasing national financial resources and assets this regime has at its disposal.

For the Middle East, it is well known that the most of the Arab authoritarian countries besides Iran depend on oil revenues as the main resource of the national wealth and for their national budgets. So, with decreasing oil revenues due to the descending prices, the financial resources available to these regimes are getting less.

Therefore, those regimes will seek further resources for public spent either domestically or internationally. Besides, these less resources, at the first place, will change and diminish the role of those regimes in the process of national distribution of wealth, which, by default, would have effects on the political situation, system and rules applied to each country.

Hence, on those both sides of the question, there are political implications toward some political changes in terms of the political system and its application, particularly at the political governance level. Then, changes in the national distribution of wealth process or/and changes in the ability of the ruling regime in general public spent due to less oil revenues have consequently political implications changing the current political status quo.

Moreover, the foreign assistance and aid, which are mainly from western nations, are subject to foreign conditions and considerations might probably have political implications as well.

As a result, law or decreasing oil price is definitely not in favor of the authoritarian systems and their associated regimes, and particularly the traditional status quo in general in the Middle East that this would have political implications and cause political changes respectively.