ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the problems and opportunities that the Arab League has faced. In offering an assessment of the obstacles to progress experienced by the League, by examining both internal and external factors, the scene is set for a realistic assessment of the League's achievements. With the seeming final death of Arab Nationalism in the 1970s and the final nail having been hammered home in the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, pressure to engage in grandiose schemes of large-scale Arab cooperation lessened and the Arab League looked like it would decline in authority, function, and relevance. The chapter also examines the outlook and prospects for the Arab League created by more recent events. Around the turn of the millennium the Arab League seemed to have been given fresh purpose as a body that would begin to focus on more practical matters designed to improve Arab lives and connections.
