The dilemma of colonial development

Under the title "The Colonial Development Dilemma," the writer Mohamed Shaaban Sawwan presents "Views on the Claims of the Positives of Colonialism," during which he reviews the history of colonialism in the countries it controlled, whether in the West or the East. He discusses admiration for the developmental projects built by colonizers in our countries, and some people's wish for the return of colonialism to save the country from the grip of tyranny, and he also discusses those who reject this colonialism entirely. The topics of the book revolve around this. The author says: "No system is now able to free itself from the structure of the fragmented state, regardless of its ideological identity, whether it is Arab, Persian, Turkish, Islamic, or nationalist. Therefore, it is correct to say that the fragmented state governed those who ruled it, and these rulers were unable to free themselves from its constraints. Contemporary history bears witness to a range of different allegiance systems that reached the rule of the nation-state but could not escape the logic of fragmentation, thus corrupting themselves and their principles, and failing to address the flaw of fragmentation, which ultimately triumphed over them." In this context, the author clarifies how colonialism has begun with a new resurgence in our countries, under various names such as dominance, or new colonialism, monopoly, and exclusivity, among others. This was under different titles spread across five chapters: The first chapter: presenting the good of developmental colonialism between benefit and destruction; the second chapter: the harms of colonialism; the third chapter: life under colonialism; the fourth chapter: has colonialism learned from its mistakes? And have its harms ended?; and the fifth chapter: was the Ottoman Empire colonialism? And for whom were its achievements?