Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity.
Evidence
Pan-Arabism – with its anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, pro-Palestinian rhetoric, etc. – both in its old and new shape, is a tool that political elites use to legitimize their rule, a language of commonality spread all over the Arab world. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 15
Categorization
- XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s central thesis on manufactured external enemies sustaining solidarity — pan-Arabism framed as an instrumental tool elites deploy rather than an authentic mass sentiment. Echoes the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ pattern of ideological rhetoric as class/identity signaling. — connects to: Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 110; Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 62; Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 64 (+6 more)
- SEED: Anchoring angle: the manufactured-enemy legitimization apparatus seen through Islamic-vs-Arab double identity, where anti-Zionism functions exactly as anti-imperialist rhetoric did post-1967.
Related
- Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. (similarity 0.90)
- Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity. (similarity 0.89)
- Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project. (similarity 0.87)
- Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric (similarity 0.85)
- Arab regimes risked their legitimacy by failing their own pan-Arab rhetoric. (similarity 0.85)
- Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings. (similarity 0.83)
- Tunisian state identity was built in opposition to pan-Arabism yet never fully abandoned it. (similarity 0.81)
- Pan-Arab political culture predates and outlasts colonial and state boundaries (similarity 0.80)
- Pan-Arab solidarity required Israel as an external enemy after the imperialist threat receded (similarity 0.80)
- Algeria is a major non-epicenter node of pan-Arabism. (similarity 0.79)
- Youssef Cherif — Neo-pan-Arabism a renewed contract of legitimacy in the Maghreb (similarity 0.79)
- Pan-Islamism replaced pan-Arabism as the leading anti-imperialist force. (similarity 0.79)
- Regimes branded grassroots uprisings as external anti-Arab conspiracies. (similarity 0.79)
- Diaspora identities are positional political choices, not primordial ascriptions (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity.
#corroborates(0.92) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 110 - Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project.
#corroborates(0.88) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 62 - Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes.
#corroborates(0.85) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 64 - Ideology is actively created by people, not passively received from above.
#corroborates(0.72) - Diaspora identities are positional political choices, not primordial ascriptions
#expands(0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 332