Pan-Islamism replaced pan-Arabism as the leading anti-imperialist force.

Evidence

The 2000s brought another batch of setbacks for pan-Arabism, which looked more and more irrelevant. The most successful attacks against global imperialism were not the work of pan-Arab groups, but of Islamist ones. Gone were the days of Palestinian guerrillas hijacking planes and targeting American and European interests; it was now al-Qaeda and violent pan-Islamism that took the lead. So when American forces entered Baghdad, the effective resistance came from Islamist forces rather than pan-Arab ones. Meanwhile, Qaddafi abandoned his nuclear program and accelerated normalization with Western powers. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 40

Categorization

• XREF: Second external challenger (Islamism vs the West) supplants pan-Arabism — another case of solidarity depending on an active external enemy, but held by a different constituency. — connects to: Pan-Islamism emerged as resistance to European economic exploitation. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 451; Postwar Islamic anti-imperial anger transferred from Europe to the superpowers — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 692; Soviet influence weakened pan-Arabism from both the left and the right — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 927 (+3 more)

Related

• Reports of pan-Arabism’s death are recurrent but so far premature (similarity 0.85)
• Soviet influence weakened pan-Arabism from both the left and the right (similarity 0.83)
• Postwar Islamic anti-imperial anger transferred from Europe to the superpowers (similarity 0.82)
• Pan-Islamism emerged as resistance to European economic exploitation. (similarity 0.82)
• Pan-Arab solidarity required Israel as an external enemy after the imperialist threat receded (similarity 0.79)
• Postcolonial pro-Western Muslim governments were successively replaced by anti-Western ones (similarity 0.79)
• Post-Uprisings Western intervention aimed to replace pan-Arab ideology with neoliberal liberal democracy. (similarity 0.79)
• Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamism rose as the left’s demise left Muslim rage with no other outlet (similarity 0.79)
• Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. (similarity 0.79)
• Communal and religious loyalties regained ground after pan-Arabism waned. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Pan-Islamism emerged as resistance to European economic exploitation. #expands (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 451
• Soviet influence weakened pan-Arabism from both the left and the right #complicates (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 927
• Postwar Islamic anti-imperial anger transferred from Europe to the superpowers #qualifies (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 692
• Reports of pan-Arabism’s death are recurrent but so far premature #contradicts (0.75) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 37
• Totalitarian successors superseded the pan-movements that bred them #expands (0.70)
• Palestinian elites abandoned pan-Arabism after experiencing exclusion from power. #qualifies (0.70)