TITLE:
War and the Nation-Building of Arab States in the Middle East
AUTHORS:
Wei Liu, Xiaosheng Sun, Kaidi Wu
KEYWORDS:
War, Arab States, Nation-Building
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.7,
July
15,
2022
ABSTRACT: This
paper adopts Charles Tilley’s “War-Driven Model” to discuss the state-building of Arab countries
in the Middle East. This paper discusses the two aspects of national capacity
and national identity in state construction, and argues that due to the special geopolitics of Middle East Arab
countries, countries in the region
cannot improve their national capacity in war, including financial absorption
capacity and social control capacity; on the one hand, war and domestic ethnic
conflict have fallen into a vicious circle of mutual cause and effect.
Therefore, this paper argues that war has a more negative effect on the current
construction of Arab states.