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In the theoretical part of this book (see Chapters 1 and 2) the subsystem approach has been presented as grounds for dealing with the question as to whether the Middle East is a regional subsystem broader than the Arab state system, that is including Israel, Turkey and Iran, or whether there exists a distinct Arab state system in its own right.1 This debate on the Middle Eastern subsystem is pertinent to discussion of the options relating to the unfolding of some kind of Arab integration capable of leading to a state community comparable with the present European Union. In this chapter I shall discuss the issue of integration in terms of building up a coherent state community that indulges itself in cooperation, not in war. As argued in the introduction to this new part, strengthening the statehood of the involved states is a basic issue. In considering the weak and nominal character of the nation-states in the Middle East regional peace and cooperation could contribute to this end, that is to bolstering statehood.
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See Bassam Tibi, ‘Islam and Arab Nationalism’, in Barbara F. Stowasser (ed.), The Islamic Impulse, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 59–74.
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See Yitzhak Nakash, The Shi ‘is of Iraq, new printing Princeton, NJ, 1996.
See Bassam Tibi, The Challeng of Fundamentalism. Political Islam and the New World Disorder, Berkeley, Cal. 1998, and also the contributions in James Piscatori (ed.), Islamic Fundamentalism and the Gulf Crisis Chicago, 1991.
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Tibi, B. (1998). The Arab State System in the Aftermath of Middle Eastern Wars and the Vision of ‘The New Middle East’. In: Conflict and War in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371576_12
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