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North Africa : politics, region, and the limits of transformation

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary Magreb. Made up of contributions from leading academics on the field it highlights specific issues of importance, including international and security affairs. With profiles of individual countries, and regional issues such as migration, gender, economics and war in Western Sahara as well as a section dealing with international relations and the Magreb including US and EU foreign policy and security issues, it is a key resource for all students of Middle Eastern Studies and North African Politics.--Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2008
Routledge, London, ©2008
xxiv, 394 pages ; 25 cm
9780415429207, 9780415429214, 9780203715598, 041542920X, 0415429218, 0203715594
131068047
Democratic desires and the authoritarian temptation in the Central Maghreb / John P. Entelis
Policy reforms in Algeria : genuine change or adjustments? / Ahmed Aghrout
Libya : reforming the economy, not the polity / Ronald Bruce St John
Mauritania : between the hammer of economic globalization and the anvil of multiparty factionalism / Mohameden Ould-Mey
The "end of the era of leniency" in Morocco / Gregory W. White
Engendering citizenship in Tunisia : prioritizing unity over democracy / Larbi Sadiki
Economic reform in the Maghreb : from stabilization to modernization / Gonzalo Escribano and Alejandro V. Lorca
Emigration, immigration, and transit in the Maghreb : externalization of EU policy? / Michael Collyer
Intra-Maghrebi relations : unitary myth and national interests / Miguel Hernando De Larramendi
Women in the Maghreb : stereotypes and realities / Louisa Dris-Ait-Hamadouche
The politics of Berber (Amazigh) identity : Algeria and Morocco compared / Michael J. Willis
Rethinking Maghrebi security : the challenge of multilateralism / Cherif Dris
The United States, Islamism, terrorism, and democracy in the Maghreb : the predominance of security? / Yahia H. Zoubir
Reverberations in the Central Maghreb of the "global war on terror" / Clement M. Henry
European policy and the southern Mediterranean / George Joffe
France and the Maghreb : the end of the special relationship? / Jean-Francois Daguzan
Spain's policy towards Morocco and Algeria : balancing relations with the southern neighbors / Haizam Amirah-Fernández