Soviet influence weakened pan-Arabism from both the left and the right

Evidence

Pan-Arabism was also adversely affected by the growth and spread of Soviet influence in the Arab countries. This happened in two different ways. The Soviets themselves dislike supranational ideologies not controlled by them, and discour­ aged pan-Arabism among their own followers, preferring to deal separately with the individual Arab states. At the same time those who were opposed to Soviet influence and who saw the Russian presence, with its treaties and its troops and its experts and its advisers, as a new imperialism, were also turning away from pan-Arabism, partly because it was pan-Arab leaders who brought the Russians into the Middle East and also, more importantly, because in a struggle against foreign penetration it is inevitably the liberation of the homeland which is the first consideration. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 927

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pan-Arab political culture predates and outlasts colonial and state boundaries — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 32; Arab political solidarity dissolved once cold war patrons and external enemies receded. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 39; Pan-Islamism replaced pan-Arabism as the leading anti-imperialist force. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 40