Regimes branded grassroots uprisings as external anti-Arab conspiracies.
Evidence
Ironically, the proponents of neo-pan-Arabism, both at the state and elite levels, portrayed the Arab uprisings as an anti-Arab conspiracy, even though it was an organic grassroots movement that took place across the Arab world and whose protagonists used unified slogans and tools across the region. Most statecontrolled media and elite circles around the regimes portrayed the movement as an Islamist, even Zionist, conspiracy against Arabs and Arabism. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 69
Categorization
- XREF: A textbook case of the manufactured-enemy dynamic from the reading purpose: an organic pan-Arab movement is reframed as a foreign plot, inverting a solidarity ideology into a regime-control tool. — connects to: Opposition within Arab states is reframed as treason to the pan-Arab cause — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 105; Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 69; Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 64 (+2 more)
Related
- Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings. (similarity 0.91)
- Opposition within Arab states is reframed as treason to the pan-Arab cause (similarity 0.85)
- Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes. (similarity 0.82)
- Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity. (similarity 0.81)
- Arab regimes risked their legitimacy by failing their own pan-Arab rhetoric. (similarity 0.79)
- Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity. (similarity 0.79)
- Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Groups invoke external enemies to justify the suppression of internal disunity
#expands(0.85) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 649 - Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes.
#complicates(0.78) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 64 - Rival excluded groups weaponized conspiracy accusations against each other.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 311