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Article: The Arab world today.
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- Social Justice
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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I. Introduction
The basic question confronting the Arab world is why it is now sliding back into a position of deepening dependency, stalled development, and increasing marginalization, despite having been one of the major participants and beneficiaries of the national liberation movement that in the second half of this century put some other Third World regions on the road to political independence, economic development, and modernization. Even in this age of increasing globalization and greater control by the center of the world economic system and its institutions over the periphery, in the final analysis internal conditions determine for any given society its ...