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An insightful and comprehensive analysis of a region that continues to be conflict prone and challenged by factors both regional and global is next to impossible, because of the ever changing political and economical dynamics of the region. Scholars today bring to bear a variety of theoretical perspectives from political science, international relations, history, and economic views. What I will try to provide is a new assessment of the dynamics of this region in its broadest sense. Arab integration? One does not have to be an Orientalist of the kind that Edward Said so deftly deconstructed to wonder whether this is an oxymoron. So pervasive today is the image of Arab disintegration that we tend to forget that the dream of Arab nationalists has always been of the far more robust term, unity. But decades of bitter experience, often maliciously exaggerated by hostile commentators, has turned even dedicated Arab nationalists into cynics, and the quest for unity to many has become a bad joke. How many times have we heard that famous aphorism about the Holy Roman Empire adapted to the "United Arab Republic" (between Egypt and Syria from 1958 to 1961), to wit, that it was neither united, nor Arab, nor a republic. The quest for Arab unity has been a dominant theme of Arab politics in the twentieth century. Recent developments, however, have rendered this dream more elusive than ever, as the Arab world’s external dependence and internal fragmentation have increased.
Approximate Word count = 889
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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