Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity.
Evidence
Pronounced dead several times, pan-Arabism continues to resurface. The latest version of this mindset, however, is not a political project, but merely a tool of legitimation. The ultimate goal of neo-pan-Arabism is not the unity of all Arabs, but the survival of individual regimes. neo-pan-Arab regimes therefore forge alliances with right-wing and left-wing groups alike, without any solid ideological glue. They refrain from global revolutionary action and keep transactional affairs going. Perhaps the only thing they all agree on is a common security alliance, stopping foreign-Western intervention in their internal politics, and crushing internal dissent. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 110
Categorization
- XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s research on manufactured enemies sustaining solidarity: here the regime-project direction is flipped — rather than mobilizing citizens behind external enemies, the discourse is a top-down legitimation tool for the regime itself, the manufactured ‘enemy’ being Western intervention and internal dissent. — connects to: Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 15; 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 (+4 more)
- ADDENDUM: Relevant to the manufactured-enemy / threat-hardened-belief research thread: neo-pan-Arab regimes retain the revolutionary (‘anti-imperialist’) discourse while operating purely transactionally — a wedge between professed conviction and actual practice.
Related
- Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project. (similarity 0.91)
- Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. (similarity 0.91)
- Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity. (similarity 0.89)
- Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings. (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 0.84)
- Youssef Cherif — Neo-pan-Arabism a renewed contract of legitimacy in the Maghreb (similarity 0.81)
- Regimes branded grassroots uprisings as external anti-Arab conspiracies. (similarity 0.81)
- Pan-Arab solidarity required Israel as an external enemy after the imperialist threat receded (similarity 0.78)
- Tunisian state identity was built in opposition to pan-Arabism yet never fully abandoned it. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes.
#corroborates(1.00) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 64 - Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project.
#corroborates(0.95) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 62