ABSTRACT
The Arab League was created by the Alexandria Protocol of October 7, 1944, and its Pact was signed on March 22, 1945. The legal bases of the League were extended by the Treaty for Joint Defense and Economic Cooperation and the 1976 interpretation of the Charter Annex on Palestine. The origins of the Arab League can be traced to the nineteenth-century Arab nationalist movements against domination by the Ottoman Empire. The Arab League began concerted efforts to speak with one voice in other international fora when, in 1965, an integrated plan to defend Palestine in the United Nations was approved. An assessment of the state of integration in the Arab League is difficult, particularly when the organization is considered as a whole. The social and cultural activities of the League are the most integrated and the most successful both because they are the least politically divisive and because they directly represent the ideological imperative of "Arab brotherhood.".
