ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the League's activities in these three spheres, examining some of the structures, initiatives, and programs that the League has shaped in these areas in order to pursue its goals, while offering an analysis of the progress achieved. Cooperation in these spheres is clearly influenced by a continuing desire to preserve sovereignty, as well as the complex animosities that have divided the region in the post-war period, creating mistrust and competition that has shaped the League and its attempts in these domains. It examines the cooperation in the field of economic integration and economic development before moving on to explore League initiatives in the sphere of human rights, as a key socio-cultural arena. The chapter also examines the less political areas of cooperation in the form of the functionalist specialized agencies of the League, and the League's fostering of cooperation with other Arab bodies—namely the so-called Arab Unions.
