Global security watch [electronic resource] : the Maghreb : Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia

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서명/저자사항	Global security watch [electronic resource]: the Maghreb : Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia / by Yahia H. Zoubir and Louis Dris-Ai?t-Hamadouche.
개인저자	Zoubir, Yahia H.  Dris-Ai?t-Hamadouche, Louisa.
발행사항	Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, [2013].
형태사항	1 online resource.
ISBN	9780313393785 (electronic bk.) 0313393788 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references.
내용주기	Introduction -- Historical and current overview of the issue / Cherif Dris -- Perceptions and management of the violence -- Human security within the Maghreb : contrasted conditions -- Maghreb common security : regional dilemmas. Interstate relations : rivalries, alliances and counter-alliances -- The Western Sahara conflict and its impact on regional security -- Security in the Sahara-Sahel region : national and regional approaches -- The Maghreb in extra-regional great powers security -- Conclusion.
요약	Looks at security in the Maghreb from different angles which include: inter alia, human security, and those critical issues and threats that have affected the stability of the incumbent regimes. Uprisings, which have erupted cyclically, especially since 2010, inform on the strengths and the weaknesses of security in the Maghreb region, which today have intensified the threats, perceived or real, confronted by the regimes. As will appear in this work, the Maghreb regimes have faced a security dilemma, which has resulted in recent years in an arms race that has been conducted to the detriment of socioeconomic development whose failure is in fact at the root of many of the problems threatening the security and stability of the incumbent regimes, as well as the sovereignty of the states in the area. The region has also suffered from a lack of collective security; because of the suspicions prevalent among the neighbors, the establishment of a Maghreb security has been impossible to materialize. Those suspicions have also thwarted the construction of an integrated Maghreb, which could potentially promote growth and prosperity. Indeed, in spite of the rhetoric regarding the necessity of creating a united Maghreb, the states that make it up have failed to implement the project laid out in the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) founded in February 1989. The UMA has been dormant since 1994 because the regimes have failed to resolve the question of Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony. Relations between Algeria and Morocco have been strained due to their contrasting positions and interests vis-a-vis this protracted conflict. Although external and geopolitical factors account for this lack of resolution of the conflict, the policy makers have been entrenched in their respective positions without succeeding in enunciating a formula that would allow for a resolution that would overcome the ideological and political postures that surround this conflict. The dispute is not the only factor impeding the erection of a united Maghreb; however, it remains a major obstacle because it is one of the primary reasons for the arms race between Algeria and Morocco. The lack of trust has prevented the brotherly neighbors from looking beyond narrow national interests and moving toward an economic integration that would certainly benefit their regional and domestic development. Their zero-sum game vision with respect to security has hindered the prospect for greater cooperation, let alone, a security community; as shall be seen, though cooperation exists in some functional areas, it remains quite limited and always full of suspicions. There is consensus among Maghreb specialists that regional integration would bring economic benefits to all the countries; yet, the Maghreb states are reluctant to abandon old schemes and raise the region to higher levels of development that would help them reduce their dependency on outside actors, such as the European Union. Rather than face external powers with a common strategy, they have sought to negotiate individually with more powerful actors without altering their dependent relations. The chapters in this book will seek to elucidate some of the problems that have hindered the construction of a united Maghreb and the development of collective security.
주제명(지명)	Africa, North --Foreign relations. Africa, North --Strategic aspects. Africa, North. --fast
일반주제명	Security, International --Africa, North. Political stability --Africa, North. Human security --Africa, North. Human security. International relations. Political stability. Security, International. Strategic aspects of individual places. HISTORY / Military / Other. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science.
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