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A seasoned expert on the Maghreb offers a fine-grained analysis of the region's politics in a time of upheaval.
Author : Luis Martínez
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0197506542
A seasoned expert on the Maghreb offers a fine-grained analysis of the region's politics in a time of upheaval.
Author : CAITLIN. FINLAYSON
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2019
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Author : George Joffé
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317304500
North Africa differs from the Middle East in several significant ways. It was subject to a uniform colonial experience as part of the French empire; its populations are far more culturally homogeneous than those of the Middle East; and, since the Reconquista, it has always been far more susceptible to European influences than has the Middle East. It has thus had a far better basis for regional integration and for effective state formation than has the Middle East itself. In the post-Cold War world, North Africa took on a new significance for Europe as issues of migration and regional trade began to dominate the European agenda. This book, first published in 1993, endeavours to investigate the background to the political developments of modern North Africa. It not only looks at the pre-colonial past but also investigates the effect of the colonial period itself on the regional dimension in view of the creation of the UMA, a confederal regional organisation, in early 1989. The contributors to this volume are all people with long experience of the North African political and historical scene.
Author : Abdelmajid Hannoum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838162
Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.
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Author : John P. Entelis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 1997-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253211316
"Rarely is a collection of essays as coherent and of such uniformly high quality as is this one. This book makes a major contribution to our efforts to understand, and so competently interact with, the forces of political, economic, and social change in states where Islamic ideals form a vibrant component of the culture." —American Historical Review "Fielding a veteran team of American Maghribi specialists, this book discusses Islam and politics, human rights, aspects of political economy, and the international dimension of prospects for democratization in Islamic North African states. . . . All chapters advance useful arguments based on solid research." —Foreign Affairs In the late 1980s, misguided economic policies, bureaucratic mismanagement, political corruption, and cultural alienation combined to create a popular demand for change in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. It seemed for a time that a new and more open politics would transform the region. Instead, authoritarian states mobilized to repress the populist opposition led by politicized Islamist movements. Analyzing developments over the last two decades from the perspectives of political culture and political economy, leading American scholars provide insights into the region's continuing political crisis.
Author : Alexander Thurston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108488668
Offers unique insights into the inner workings of jihadist organisations over the past three decades in North Africa and the Sahel.
Author : Irene Fernandez Molina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100005537X
Foreign Policy in North Africa explores how the foreign policies of North African states, which occupy a peripheral and subaltern position within the global system, have actively responded to the constraints and opportunities stemming from multi-level transformations in the 2010s. What has been the extent of continuity and change in each country’s foreign policy-making and behaviour under such conditions? Which structural and agential factors explain the variations observed, or the lack thereof? Building on scholarship on foreign policy in the Global South and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as well as the international impact of the 2011 Arab uprisings, case studies on six different countries focus on a specific level of analysis for each. These range from the global (Tunisia’s financial predicaments and foreign debt negotiations) through the (sub)regional (Egypt’s relationship of necessity with Saudi Arabia, Algeria’s half-hearted policies towards the conflicts in Libya and Mali) to the domestic sphere (Morocco’s power balance between the monarchy and the Islamist-led government, Libya’s extreme state weakness and internal competition among proliferating actors), reaching also the deeper non-state societal level in the case of Mauritania. The volume concludes by examining post-2011 developments in the longstanding Algerian–Moroccan rivalry which hinders regional integration in the Maghreb. Foreign Policy in North Africa will be of great interest to scholars of North African politics and international relations, Middle Eastern and North African studies, foreign policy and global international relations. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of North African Studies.
Author : Abel Polese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429602146
Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the authors explore non-standard cases where power may be retained by a state but must be shared with a number of local actors, resulting in limited statehood and hybrid governance, which leads to competition and sharing of symbolic and political power within a state. This book is intended to prompt a critical reflection on the meaning of governance. It will illuminate informal structures which deserve attention when studying governance and power dynamics within a state or a region. This book was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.
Author : Safaa El-Kogali
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1464803242
Early childhood is the most important stage of human development yet in Middle East and North Africa countries there is little research and inadequate investment in this crucial stage of life. This book covers risk, protective factors, policies and programs that can address inequality and shortfalls in the early years of life.