For decades, Arab states and societies have been involved in an
ongoing conflict over the goals and norms of Arabism. In this
comprehensive study, Michael Barnett explores the relationships
between Arab identity, the meaning of Arabism, and desired regional
order in the Middle East from 1920 to the present, focusing on
Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.
Barnett examines the state system in four distinct time frames: the
mandate period to the establishment of the League of Arab States in
1945; 1945 through the Baghdad Pact of 1955; the Suez War through
the 1967 war; and 1967 through the Gulf War. Within each of these
time frames, the Arab states' relationship to unification, the
West, and confrontation with Zionism are addressed.
Does Arab unity depend on excluding Western influences? Can an
Arab state be at once Islamic and democratic? Why can't the Arab
states agree on a common government? Barnett argues that the Arab
states' symbolic and strategic interactions were responsible for
the alterations in the norms of Arabism, and ultimately, the
fragamentation that currently defines the region.
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