Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab
world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or
de-development. He defines de-development as the purposeful
deconstruction of developing entities. The Arab world has lost its
wars and its society restructured to absorb the terms of defeat
masquerading as development policies under neoliberalism. Foremost
in this process of de-development are the policies of
de-industrialisation that have laid to waste the production of
knowledge, created a fully compradorial ruling class that relies on
commerce and international finance for its reproduction, as opposed
to nationally based production, and halted the primary engine of
job creation. The Arab mode of accumulation has come to be based on
commerce in a manner similar to that of the pre-capitalist age
along with its cultural decay. Kadri attributes the Arab world's
developmental failure not only to imperialist hegemony over oil,
but also to the rising role of financialisation, which goes hand in
hand with the wars of encroachment that were already stripping the
Arab world of its resources. War for war's sake has become a
tributary to the world economy, argues Kadri, and like oil, there
is neither a shortage of war nor a shortage of the conditions to
make new war in the Arab world.
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