Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings.
Evidence
To combat the Arab uprisings, the Arab regimes used the slogans of pan-Arabism. LAS discussions about the future of joint Arab work or Arab regional security accelerated, and Arab regimes supported each other. They also adopted similar narratives and coordinated their actions, such as the anti-terrorism quartet formed by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain against Qatar. When Egypt and the UAE withdrew their ambassadors from Tunisia in 2013 and Qatar in 2014, they mentioned the deviation of the latter two countries from the Arab path. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 69
Categorization
- XREF: Directly connects to the reading purpose’s manufactured-enemy thesis — here pan-Arabism gets inverted to police internal dissent by casting organic popular movements as foreign plots. — connects to: Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 18; Arab regimes risked their legitimacy by failing their own pan-Arab rhetoric. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 23; Opposition within Arab states is reframed as treason to the pan-Arab cause — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 105 (+4 more)
- ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘manufactured enemy sustains solidarity’ dynamic from the reading purpose, complementing the ‘On Sacrifice’ and other articles’ theme of elite-managed collective cohesion.
Related
- Regimes branded grassroots uprisings as external anti-Arab conspiracies. (similarity 0.91)
- Opposition within Arab states is reframed as treason to the pan-Arab cause (similarity 0.87)
- Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity. (similarity 0.87)
- Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. (similarity 0.87)
- Arab regimes risked their legitimacy by failing their own pan-Arab rhetoric. (similarity 0.86)
- Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric (similarity 0.83)
- Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity. (similarity 0.83)
- Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project. (similarity 0.81)
- Arab regimes sustain solidarity chiefly through ideological dialogue, not arms or trade (similarity 0.79)
- The 2011 Arab uprisings were rebellions against both dictators and neoliberalism, not Islamic revivals (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Regimes branded grassroots uprisings as external anti-Arab conspiracies.
#corroborates(0.90) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 69 - Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity.
#expands(0.85) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 15 - Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity.
#corroborates(0.82) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 110