The Cost Of Non Maghreb

Author : Aldo Liga
Publisher : Ledizioni
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9791256000197

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The Cost of "Non-Maghreb" by Aldo Liga Pdf

Over the last decades, rivalries, bilateral disagreements, and distrust between Maghreb states have taken a toll on common political and security challenges, like the Western Sahara issue, the Libyan conflict, the destabilisation in the Sahel region and transnational clandestine flows. Moreover, the Maghreb is one of the least economically integrated regions in the world, and this leads to the region’s loss in growth, and the disheartening record of missed opportunities for stability and prosperity. This is the cost of the “non-Maghreb”.This Report aims to unpack the political and economic costs of the “non-Maghreb”, understand its historical genesis and geopolitical implications and, more broadly, what the future might hold for individual countries and the Maghreb as a divided, fractious but potentially coherent whole.

Author : A. Liga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9791256000180

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The Cost Of. Unpacking the Political and Economic Costs of Disunion and Divisions by A. Liga Pdf

Author : Mr.Alexei P Kireyev,Mr.Boaz Nandwa,Ms.Lorraine Ocampos,Mr.Babacar Sarr,Mr.Ramzy Al Amine,Mr.Allan G Auclair,Mr.Yufei Cai,Mr.Jean-Francois Dauphin
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484378373

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Economic Integration in the Maghreb by Mr.Alexei P Kireyev,Mr.Boaz Nandwa,Ms.Lorraine Ocampos,Mr.Babacar Sarr,Mr.Ramzy Al Amine,Mr.Allan G Auclair,Mr.Yufei Cai,Mr.Jean-Francois Dauphin Pdf

Individual countries of the Maghreb have achieved substantial progress on trade, but, as a region they remain the least integrated in the world. The share of intraregional trade is less than 5 percent of their total trade, substantially lower than in all other regional trading blocs around the world. Geopolitical considerations and restrictive economic policies have stifled regional integration. Economic policies have been guided by country-level considerations, with little attention to the region, and are not coordinated. Restrictions on trade and capital flows remain substantial and constrain regional integration for the private sector.

Author : Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Claire Brunel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780881324945

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Maghreb Regional and Global Integration by Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Claire Brunel Pdf

Increasing terrorist activity has led the Maghreb countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Libya—to focus on antiterrorism efforts, unintentionally at the expense of full-fledged economic reform. These countries have tightened their border restrictions on the flow of people and goods, reducing commerce and depressing economic activity. In fact, Maghreb has one of the lowest rates of intra-regional trade in the world; other factors like rigid economic structures, slow productivity growth, and modest investment levels continue to stymie progress toward economic integration. Do these countries' diverse circumstances symbolize insurmountable obstacles in achieving economic cooperation and an improved standard of living for citizens? How can the United States and European Union facilitate economic progress? Maghreb Regional and Global Integration: A Dream to Be Fulfilled utilizes two distinct econometric tools to assess four key sectors—energy, banking and insurance, transport, and agribusiness—and outlines achievable sector-specific recommendations. This book not only assesses the gains from economic integration among the Maghreb countries, but also focuses on the tangible benefits from enhanced economic ties between the region and the world economy. With this critical analysis, the authors provide an in-depth look at practical measures such as bilateral trade and investment agreements, regional arrangements, and financial assistance that can significantly boost short-term success and ensure long-term gains through integration in an unstable region.

Author : Irene Fernandez-Molina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317634249

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Moroccan Foreign Policy under Mohammed VI, 1999-2014 by Irene Fernandez-Molina Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive survey of Moroccan foreign policy since 1999. It considers the objectives, actors and decision-making processes involved, and outlines Morocco's foreign policy activity in key areas such as the international management of the Western Sahara conflict and relations with the other states of North Africa, relations with the European Union, especially France and Spain, and relations with the United States and the Middle East. The book links the behaviour and discourses analysed to differing conceptions of Morocco's national role on the international scene - champion of national territorial integrity, model student of the EU, and good ally of the United States - and shows how these competing approaches to the country's foreign policy enjoy different degrees of domestic consensus, and result in different degrees of legitimation for the regime.

Author : Alan Cafruny,Patrick Peters
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004640313

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The Union and the World: The Political Economy of a Common European Foreign Policy by Alan Cafruny,Patrick Peters Pdf

During the last decade Europe has been transformed both politically and commercially. The establishment of a genuinely single marketplace in the context of an expanding membership has enabled the European Union greatly to enhance its role on the world stage. In the areas of trade and commercial policy the Union increasingly speaks with one voice. As a result of the Maastricht Treaty on Economic and Political Union of 1993, a process has been set in motion whereby the embryonic mechanisms of a common foreign policy (European Political Cooperation or EPC) are gradually evolving into a more comprehensive Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The contributors to this volume describe and evaluate the nature and extent to which the European Union plays an independent role in international affairs. This pioneering work makes an important contribution to the literature on the European Union since the chapters present a comprehensive picture of the Union's foreign economic policies and actions, its foreign security policy, and the supranational nature of much Union decision-making. The book is significant, not only because of its dual focus on economics as well as politics, but also because it comprehensively covers the broad range of Union policies in both the economic and political spheres. The intended level of readership is undergraduate courses on the EU and on European politics; upper level undergraduate courses in International Relations; and graduate survey courses on the EU. The book is sufficiently comprehensive and instructive to achieve a wide readership, especially in North America and the UK.

Author : Tasnim Abderrahim,Laura-Theresa Krüger,Salma Besbes,Katharina McLarren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351732567

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Tunisia's International Relations since the 'Arab Spring' by Tasnim Abderrahim,Laura-Theresa Krüger,Salma Besbes,Katharina McLarren Pdf

When popular protests started in Tunisia in late 2010, few anticipated the implications these events would have for the entire Arab region. In the following years, this region witnessed deep changes, increased divisions, and even failing states. Meanwhile, Tunisia managed to assert itself as a new democracy. How did this small country manage its democratic transition within such a short period? And what implications has this had for its foreign policy and its role in international politics? This book assesses Tunisia’s transition ‘inside and out’ from four angles: Tunisian polity and politics which provide the framework for its foreign policy since the ‘Arab Spring’; bilateral relations before and after the ‘Arab Spring’; Tunisia’s activism in international organisations as well as their presence in Tunisia; and transnational issues in Tunisia. Drawing on a broad range of primary sources, including authors’ own interview material conducted with politicians and representatives of civil society and international NGOs involved in the transition process, the book shows that since 2011 Tunisia has not only developed fundamentally at the domestic level, but also at the level of external relations. New and old alliances, a broadening of relations, and new activism of civil society and of Tunisia in international organisations certify that Tunisia has the potential to play an increasingly important role regionally as well as internationally. Providing an encompassing picture of Tunisia’s changed role and successful transition from an autocracy to a democracy, the book allows students and scholars in the field to understand the ‘last country standing’ better, a country that both the scientific community and the political scene should not underestimate for the promises it holds.

Author : Kenneth Omeje
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030493486

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The Governance, Security and Development Nexus by Kenneth Omeje Pdf

This edited book analyses the changing links between governance, security and development in Africa as they relate to the narrative that contemporary Africa has made remarkable progress in recent years, a phenomenon popularly known as “Africa rising.” The book presents a rigorous evaluation of the Africa rising debate and consequently offers innovative policy guidelines for Africa’s governance and development transformation.

Author : Debashis Chakraborty,Jaydeep Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317207825

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Trade, Investment and Economic Development in Asia by Debashis Chakraborty,Jaydeep Mukherjee Pdf

In an era of globalization, trade in goods and cross-border services and capital flows play a key role in determining the economic growth path of countries. Over the last two decades, countries have embarked on several alternate tracks to liberalize and deepen their linkage with the world economy. The growing trade-investment nexus and the emerging developments lead to deeper international production networks, rise in cross-border trade in services and in regional trade agreements and so on. The debate of whether it is possible to empirically validate the potential benefits of this deepening trade-investment linkage is ongoing. The evidence in literature is, however, ambiguous. This book contributes to the literature by looking at Asian economies and at the EU, Maghreb countries and Pacific Island economics. It examines the issues under four broad areas, namely: (1) trade: theoretical and policy issues, (2) factor flows: impact on trade and welfare, (3) impact of trade and factor flows on environment and (4) institutions, international trade and policy issues.

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108425643

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Seeking Legitimacy by Aili Mari Tripp Pdf

A comparative study based on extensive fieldwork, and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, Aili Mari Tripp analyzes why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

Author : Tobias Schumacher,Andreas Marchetti,Thomas Demmelhuber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317429524

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The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy by Tobias Schumacher,Andreas Marchetti,Thomas Demmelhuber Pdf

The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU’s most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field. Coherently structured and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this handbook covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU’s neighbourhood policy framework through a series of cutting-edge contributions. With chapters from a substantial number of scholars who have been influential in shaping the study of the ENP, this handbook serves to encourage debates which will hopefully produce more conceptual as well as neighbourhood-specific perspectives leading to enriching future studies on the EU’s policies towards its neighbourhood. It will be a key reference point both for advanced-level students, scholars and professionals developing knowledge in the fields of EU/European Studies, European Foreign Policy Analysis, Area studies, EU law, and more broadly in political economy, political science, comparative politics and international relations.

Author : Salvatore Capasso,Eugenia Ferragina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351365963

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Mediterranean Migration and the Labour Markets by Salvatore Capasso,Eugenia Ferragina Pdf

This book focuses on issues that are relevant for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. The depth and the extension of the current political crisis in the area have changed the perspectives of conventional Euro-Mediterranean integration policies. The book provides the grounds for new patterns of analysis and addresses policy guidelines which are able to respond to the dramatic challenges that Mediterranean regions are facing. By implementing a multidisciplinary approach, the volume uncovers the structural determinants of migrations in the area: territorial and social imbalances, climate change, unemployment, weak institutions, poor governance, lack of efficient redistributive policies. Each chapter proposes innovative and rich analyses of the socio-economic conditions of all Mediterranean countries. The prevailing evidence suggests that while the North-South imbalances still persist inside the basin, the recent world economic and financial crises have deepened social, intergenerational and gender inequalities. These inequalities cross all territories both nationally and internationally and affect the living conditions of large segments of population in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries. To bridge these gaps it is necessary to strengthen territorial cohesion, reduce income differentials, and improve the access of marginal areas to basic infrastructure. These long term goals can be achieved through an inclusive development model for which young people and women can enjoy the same opportunities of education and work. Offering innovative and practical guidelines for future programs and policies, this book is essential reading for policy makers, researchers at policy think tanks as well as academics and post graduate students of Mediterranean studies and Economic Policy. The general policy recipes, provided to govern migration flows, make useful reading for national and international research centres and major governmental agencies interested in migration issues.

Author : Andréanne Bissonnette,Élisabeth Vallet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000191035

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Borders and Border Walls by Andréanne Bissonnette,Élisabeth Vallet Pdf

This book addresses the recent evolution of borderlines around the world as an attempt to control transnational movements with a view to securitization of borders rooted in the need to control mobility and preserve national identities. This book moves beyond physical borders and studies new manifestations of borders such as technological and symbolic walls. It brings together scholars from various academic fields such as geography, political science, and border studies to examine the various movements, functions and articulations of international borders. It explores two main issues: how international borders have become enforced lines of demarcation and division, reinforcing national identity and impacting national and regional dynamics; and the material and immaterial, discursive and concrete expressions of borders and the impacts of the transformation of bodies into threat to be monitored, as daily lives become sites of border enforcement. Offering multidisciplinary insights on the growing phenomenon of border walls, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Border Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Political Geography, and Regional Studies.

Author : Imad El-Anis,Natasha Underhill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443896351

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Regional Integration and National Disintegration in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East by Imad El-Anis,Natasha Underhill Pdf

This edited collection explores the processes of change currently shaping the Middle East in the post-Arab Spring context. The national and transnational challenges that have emerged since the uprisings in 2011 – particularly the increase in extremism, and the emergence and intensification of civil wars – have garnered significant attention in both media coverage and academic research. However, simultaneous (and far older) processes of regional integration – varying in form from free trade agreements like the Greater Arab Free Trade Area to economic and political unions like the Gulf Cooperation Council – have also been influenced by the changes of the past few years. This text draws together innovative new research from different fields to explore how far the changes shaping the Middle East are leading to the region’s polarisation between states that are integrating politically and economically with each other on the one hand, and states that are disintegrating internally on the other. The book includes contributions from scholars and practitioners from around the world, and who work in different fields including Middle Eastern studies, international relations, international political economy, foreign policy studies, and security studies. Chapters vary in focus and approach, with the first section focusing on security-related issues, particularly civil wars and terrorism. A second group of chapters looks at political economy in the region, and examines domestic, regional and global practices and processes, including foreign aid, trade, and development. A final group of chapters investigates socio-political and socio-cultural issues, including the role of civil society in the region, migration, and international law.

Author : Stephen J. King,Abdeslam Maghraoui
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253040886

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The Lure of Authoritarianism by Stephen J. King,Abdeslam Maghraoui Pdf

The works collected in The Lure of Authoritarianism consider the normative appeal of authoritarianism in light of the 2011 popular uprisings in the Middle East. Despite what seemed to be a popular revolution in favor of more democratic politics, there has instead been a slide back toward authoritarian regimes that merely gesture toward notions of democracy. In the chaos that followed the Arab Spring, societies were lured by the prospect of strong leaders with firm guiding hands. The shift toward normalizing these regimes seems sudden, but the works collected in this volume document a gradual shift toward support for authoritarianism over democracy that stretches back decades in North Africa. Contributors consider the ideological, socioeconomic, and security-based justifications of authoritarianism as well as the surprising and vigorous reestablishment of authoritarianism in these regions. With careful attention to local variations and differences in political strategies, the volume provides a nuanced and sweeping consideration of the changes in the Middle East in the past and what they mean for the future.