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• 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.