Pessimism of Reason and Optimism of Will. The Arab World the Day After Tomorrow

... have lived through profound upheavals and conflicts – need massive economic aid. And this would saddle them with new obligations to the donors. All this paints, if not a gloomy, then certainly a fairly alarming picture of the future, replete with conflicts, socioeconomic threats and political upheavals. To meet the future challenges, the Arab world will above all have to be able to look for creative ideas, discover new intellectual solutions, and draw on current world experience of modernization and state development. One resource for that may be the powerful Arab communities living in ...