Arab Cold War (This is the Dream)

The Arab Cold War (: الحرب العربية الباردة ‎ al-Harb al-`Arabbiyah al-bārdah) was a state of heightened diplomatic and military tension in the Arab world between powers espousing Arab nationalism and Pan-Arabism led by the United Arab Republic and the more traditionalist kingdoms led by Saudi Arabia. Though historians do not fully agree on the dates, the conflict is often considered to have begun shortly after the in 1952 and lasted until the Ramadan Revolution in 2001 which resulted in the collapse of the House of Saud and the foundation of the Arabian Republic.

Despite its beginnings during the global Cold War and era of European decolonization, and its links and interactions to that wider Cold War, the Arab Cold War was not a clash between capitalist and Marxist–Leninist regimes. The two sides were Arab nationalist republics, usually quasi-socialist and Pan-Arabist in orientation, and the traditional monarchies, usually with quasi-feudal or rentierist economic structures. These two blocs later coalesced into the Pan-Arabist Union of Arab States and the traditionalist Organisation of Islamic Cooperation following the Arab victory in the Palestine War and the escalation of the ideological conflict.