League Of Arab States Research Articles

Book Reviews : The Organization of American States: An Introduction. O. C. Stoetzer. Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., New York, 1965, $6.50. The League of Arab States: A Study in the Dynamics of Regional Organization. Robert W. MacDonald. Princeton University Press, Prince ton, New Jersey, 1965, 68/-

Book Reviews : The Organization of American States: An Introduction. O. C. Stoetzer. Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., New York, 1965, $6.50. The League of Arab States: A Study in the Dynamics of Regional Organization. Robert W. MacDonald. Princeton University Press, Prince ton, New Jersey, 1965, 68/-

The League of Arab States: A Study in the Dynamics of Regional Organization, by Robert W. Macdonald

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The League of Arab States: A Study in the Dynamics of Regional Organisation, Islam in the Modern National State and Islam and International Relations

The League of Arab States: A Study in the Dynamics of Regional Organisation, Islam in the Modern National State and Islam and International Relations

Book Review: Middle East: The League of Arab States

Book Review: Middle East: The League of Arab States

The League of Arab States. A Study in the Dynamics of Regional Organization

The League of Arab States. A Study in the Dynamics of Regional Organization

Regional Organization and the United Nations

One of the marked features of international relations in recent years has been the growth of regional groupings and organizations. Included among the more notable regional arrangements formed since 1944 are the League of Arab States, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, the Organization of American States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the European Coal and Steel Community. In addition to these and other existent arrangements are proposals for the creation of a European Defense Community and a European Political Community, the idea of a Pacific Pact resembling NATO, the concept of a Middle East Defense organization, and a possible linkage of Asian States.

The League of Arab States: Debacle of a Regional Arrangement

In recent discussions of the value of regional arrangements for the maintenance of international peace and security, it is regrettable that little attention has been given to the experience of the League of Arab States. For although the League as an organized expression of “regional cooperation” has existed for little more than four years, its activities thus far have raised some fundamental questions regarding the proper role of such arrangements within the framework of a United Nations system.

Towards an Arab Union: The League of Arab States

“The Arab World,” said Mr. Anthony Eden, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in his speech at the Mansion House, May 29, 1941, “has made great strides since the settlement reached at the end of the last war, and many Arab thinkers desire for the Arab peoples a greater degree of unity than they now enjoy. In reaching out towards this unity, they hope for our support. No such appeal from our friends should go unanswered. It seems to me both natural and right that the cultural and economic ties, too, should be strengthened. His Majesty's Government for their part will give their full support to any scheme that commands general approval.”The Arab nationalists long ago aspired to achieve the ideal of an Arab union, or federation. But, they maintained, European imperialism had deliberately prevented the realization of that ideal. The Arabs had. fought on the side of the Allies in the first World War in order to achieve their freedom from Ottoman rule; but, following that war, the Arab World was detached from Turkish sovereignty only to be dominated by European Powers who, by applying the principle of mandatory tutelage, sought to satisfy their imperialistic interests. Moreover, the nationalists contended, the Arab World was deliberately divided into separate countries in order to make easy their domination by creating small and hopelessly weak states.