Arab regimes risked their legitimacy by failing their own pan-Arab rhetoric.

Evidence

Arab leaders use or have used analogous words and intonations in their speeches. “The danger for Arab governments, then, was that by routinely failing to live up to Arab-inspired rhetoric and promises, they undermined the symbols and norms that they used to support their legitimacy” (Barnett, 1998: 48). Some pursued the dream of Arab unity more than others. They created schools and militias to indoctrinate Arabs with pan-Arabist ideas, and they even used their armies to spread the ideology. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 23

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names how pan-Arabist rhetoric functioned as a legitimacy contract, not just ideology.
• XREF: connects to: Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 18; Arab nationalism failed concretely on unity, Palestine, and economics — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 329; Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 110 (+4 more)

Related

• Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. (similarity 0.87)
• Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric (similarity 0.86)
• Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings. (similarity 0.86)
• Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity. (similarity 0.86)
• Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity. (similarity 0.85)
• Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project. (similarity 0.81)
• The 1967 Six-Day War destroyed Arab nationalism’s political legitimacy (similarity 0.81)
• Arab regimes sustain solidarity chiefly through ideological dialogue, not arms or trade (similarity 0.79)
• Regimes branded grassroots uprisings as external anti-Arab conspiracies. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Arab nationalism failed concretely on unity, Palestine, and economics #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 329
• Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity. #qualifies (0.82) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 110
• Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings. #corroborates (0.80) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 69
• Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. #qualifies (0.78) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 64
• The 1967 Six-Day War destroyed Arab nationalism’s political legitimacy #qualifies (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 328
• Arab states lack legitimacy because imperial borders cut across ethnic and religious loyalties #expands (0.72)