Basra University organizes a workshop on (the modern Arab state and the dilemma of strategic exposure)
The Continuing Education Unit at the College of Education for Human Sciences organized a workshop on (the modern Arab state, the impasse, exposure and strategy)
The workshop included a lecture given by the lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the Lebanese University, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Naguib Murad
During which he discussed monitoring the career path of the modern state in the Arab world, which is a newly established state in an Arab regional system whose features began in the political, economic, social and cultural formation of nearly a century ago. The political entities - states that appeared in this system were not able to establish an experience that takes sustainable positive accumulation at the level of renaissance and development. On the contrary, they were witnessing setbacks and failures in their functions, which led them into a spiral of stumbling, leading to their strategic exposure on a non-political, economic level. Social, scientific, diplomatic, and more.
The workshop discussed five basic research axes: The first is the analogy of the historical formation of modern Arab states within the framework of an Arab regional system characterized by the peculiarities of historical, geographical, economic, social and political integration, etc., and the second is the impediments to the establishment of the state, especially its problem in the transition from an old traditional historical meeting to the meeting of the modern state. In light of the foreign and Western hegemony, including in particular, and the third, the functional dilemma of the state and its failure to address many problems such as national identity, democracy, minorities and others, and the fourth is the manifestations of the strategic exposure of the state that clearly emerged with its entry into the current century - the twenty-first century, on a level other than population, food and economic The fifth, provides a vision for the future of the state in the Arab world, to get out of its impasse and stumbling, and to reformulate the state anew in terms of performance and function.
The workshop aims to place the modern Arab state in front of the duality of challenge and response, as it faces a number of pressing challenges, which requires it to show an adequate response to overcome and overcome it. As for the required response, it will be the following: the establishment of the state of freedom, equality and citizenship, a new social contract between the state’s society and the ruling authority, the final disposal of the oppressive state and the passage to the civil democratic state.
