Underlying most of the findings in the much cited 2002 UNDP Arab Human Development Report is theextraordinary lack of coordination between Arab countries. There is considerable irony in the fact that theArabs are discussed and referred to both in this report and elsewhere as a group even though they seem rarelyto function as one, except negatively. Thus the report correctly says that there is no Arab democracy, Arabwomen are uniformly an oppressed majority, and in science and technology every Arab state is behind the restof the world.