Postcolonial pro-Western Muslim governments were successively replaced by anti-Western ones

Evidence

The reaction against the West can be seen not only in the central intellectual thrust of the Islamic Resurgence but also in the shift in the attitudes toward the West of governments in Muslim countries. The immediate postcolonial governments were generally Western in their political and economic ideologies and policies and pro-Western in their foreign policies, with partial exceptions, like Algeria and Indonesia, where independence resulted from a nationalist revolution. One by one, however, pro-Western governments gave way to governments less identified with the West or explicitly anti-Western in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Lebanon, and Afghanistan. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 577

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neo-nationalist backlash against imposed Western models recurs across post-authoritarian spaces. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 55