But culturally and politically it is extremely islamo-arab nationalist.
What's a source for that?
Walt
Any thorough political examination of Arab politics. The Ba'ath party espouses a sort of pan-arab unity, largely compete against the western world. Roughly translated the party means Renaissance. This is a referrence to the Islamic scientific high marks around the 10th and 11th centuries and political high marks in the centuries after that. In short, it's a party of islamo-arab nationalism.