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Article: The League of Nations and the question of national identity in the Fertile Crescent.(Wilson and the League of Nations, part 2)
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- World Affairs
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- June 22, 1995
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Nationalism, national boundaries, and the nation-state system in the Arab world present to the student of international affairs a unique set of paradoxes. Whereas few, if any, scholars would treat pan-Africanism or pan-Americanism with any degree of seriousness, social scientists who study the politics of the Middle East - even those who would debunk the pragmatic value of the doctrine - can ill afford to ignore the impulse that celebrates the linguistic, ethnic, or historic ties among Arabs and/or that demands the political integration of the region. Nevertheless, past attempts at unification, such as those that culminated in the ill-fated United Arab Republic, have (with ...
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