Renewed pan-Arab rhetoric principally legitimizes existing authoritarian regimes.
Evidence
Pan-Arabism, therefore, lives on, but in a renewed form; it is Neo Pan-Arabism. It is a populist way of doing politics, and a tool to legitimize existing regimes – or to consolidate their legitimacy. One of the main characteristics of Neo Pan-Arabism is that it is not an ideology. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 64
Categorization
- XREF: The explicit legitimation function of a constructed collective identity — the reader’s central research concern. — connects to: Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 15; Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 18; Arab regimes risked their legitimacy by failing their own pan-Arab rhetoric. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 23 (+7 more)
- QUESTION: If the enemy-is-real solidarity has decayed and pan-Arabism now chiefly legitimizes regimes, does the manufactured threat still bind publics, or only elites co-opt the discourse?
Related
- Neo-pan-Arabism sustains regime legitimacy rather than pursuing Arab unity. (similarity 0.91)
- Pan-Arabism functions as elite legitimation rhetoric, not primordial identity. (similarity 0.90)
- Pan-Arab movements produced autocratic leaders despite democratic rhetoric (similarity 0.88)
- Arab regimes risked their legitimacy by failing their own pan-Arab rhetoric. (similarity 0.87)
- Contemporary pan-Arab rhetoric is performative statecraft, not an actual union project. (similarity 0.87)
- Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings. (similarity 0.87)
- Regimes branded grassroots uprisings as external anti-Arab conspiracies. (similarity 0.82)
- Pan-Arabism survives as public orthodoxy long after leaders abandoned it (similarity 0.79)
- Pan-Islamism replaced pan-Arabism as the leading anti-imperialist force. (similarity 0.79)
- Youssef Cherif — Neo-pan-Arabism a renewed contract of legitimacy in the Maghreb (similarity 0.78)
- Tunisian state identity was built in opposition to pan-Arabism yet never fully abandoned it. (similarity 0.78)
- Reports of pan-Arabism’s death are recurrent but so far premature (similarity 0.78)
- Opposition within Arab states is reframed as treason to the pan-Arab cause (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Arab regimes weaponize pan-Arab slogans against internal grassroots uprisings.
#corroborates(0.90) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 69 - Intellectuals either serve existing power or align with emerging popular forces.
#expands(0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 126