Post-Uprisings Western intervention aimed to replace pan-Arab ideology with neoliberal liberal democracy.

Evidence

The objective of Western countries and organizations was subtle. Unlike the USSR during the Cold War, for example, which advocated the establishment of communist regimes and societies; unlike pan-Arabism, with its stated goal of establishing a unified Arab supra-state, these organizations advocated the creation of an open society, a liberal democracy, or, in other words, an Arab world in the image of the neoliberal West, detached from pan-Arab ideology, economically open, and friendly to Europe and the United States. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 54

Categorization

• SEED: Angles toward comparing external-ideology grafts in post-Soviet space vs. post-Arab-Uprising space.
• XREF: Connects to the broader reading thread on manufactured threats and group solidarity. — connects to: Neo-nationalist backlash against imposed Western models recurs across post-authoritarian spaces. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 55; Western impact caused Middle East political formlessness and instability — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1193; The post-Cold War West believed democracy would spread worldwide. (+4 more)

Related

• The 2011 Arab uprisings were rebellions against both dictators and neoliberalism, not Islamic revivals (similarity 0.82)
• Neo-nationalist backlash against imposed Western models recurs across post-authoritarian spaces. (similarity 0.80)
• Postcolonial pro-Western Muslim governments were successively replaced by anti-Western ones (similarity 0.79)
• Pan-Islamism replaced pan-Arabism as the leading anti-imperialist force. (similarity 0.79)
• Western impact caused Middle East political formlessness and instability (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Western impact caused Middle East political formlessness and instability #expands (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1193
• The post-Cold War West believed democracy would spread worldwide. #expands (0.80)
• The 2011 Arab uprisings were rebellions against both dictators and neoliberalism, not Islamic revivals #corroborates (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 373
• Neo-nationalist backlash against imposed Western models recurs across post-authoritarian spaces. #qualifies (0.75) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 55
• Arab Spring mass demonstrations falsified Western claims that Arabs reject democracy #complicates (0.75) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1389
• Unled spontaneous revolts invite reactionary counter-movements and coups #responds-to (0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 808
• Communal and religious loyalties regained ground after pan-Arabism waned. #qualifies (0.70) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 929