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the common market is an advanced level among the various levels of economic integration between a set of countries. Despite all the solid and firm basics that were available to the Arab world countries in order to achieve the economic integration, however the fact of working towards enhancing such integration hasn't reached the level of the peoples’ ambitions in our Arab world and it hasn't gone beyond the resolutions that were taken in the Arab summits without any activation or execution regardless the fifty years that have passed since the foundation of the Arab Countries League, the decades that went by since the ratification of the treaty of Arab Economic Unity in 1957 and the project of the Arab Common Market in 1964. Such failure in achieving an Arab economic integration induces us to the necessity of deducing lessons and examples; why did other economic unities succeed while our Arab experience has met only failures? This study shows that one of the major factors that hindered the activation and success of the Arab experience is the non-existence of an efficient political will to accomplish the integration and this is due to the fact that the Arab masses were caused to be absent from participating in designing, drawing and enhancing the experiences of economic integration. Another fact was that the narrow country interests were given priority over the national or regional interests in addition to the economic dependence on the occidental countries and, particularly, the United States of America whose obvious and illegitimate siding with Israel has resulted - and still is - in dumping the Arab world in a state of political and security instability and conducting the resources of the Arab region far from the achievement of a national Arab security and welfare. Moreover, one of the obstacles for the Arab economic integration is the absence of effective coordination between the various Arab countries and the reserves made by some of them regarding a large number of articles and provisions. A new era of Arab economic integration started with the ratification of the "Agreement of facilitating and developing the commercial exchange between the Arab countries" in 1981 and the ratification of the executive program for the foundation of an Arab free trade zone which constitutes a preliminary serious step towards the achievement of Arab economic integration. Maybe the people in charge of the Arab economies would learn from the previous experiences that respecting the economic, political and other rights of the Arab human being is the right entrance towards making the Common Arab work successful.
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