POLI 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chemical Warfare, Hashemites, Arab Nationalism
21 Dec 2016
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Arab identity/language, islam (arab nationalism, islamist movements, palestine issue, arab spring), shared regional media. Me has more transnationalism than anywhere else. Transnationalism: regimes may view such influences as a threat to domestic stability. Saudi arabia and uae vs. muslim brotherhood. Saudis derive legitimacy from wahhabism, and don"t want an opposing form of islam affecting their legitimacy > view it as something that can spill across their borders and be subversive. Monarchies worrying about the stability of other monarchies; domino effect of monarchies falling might spill over. State consolidation and citizen identity emphasis on identity to insulate themselves from transnational effects. No leader wants their people subject to extraterritorial appeals, ex. Nasser was able to speak to the whole arab world: regimes may use transnational appeals to affect politics in other states. Jordan worried that these ideas would affect the stability of their politics. Iranian revolution inspired the growth of hezbollah.
