Moroccan Foreign Policy under Mohammed VI, 19992014
This book presents a comprehensive survey of Moroccan foreign policy since 1999. It considers the objectives, actors and decision-making processes involved, and outlines Moroccos 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 Moroccos 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 countrys foreign policy enjoy different degrees of domestic consensus, and result in different degrees of legitimation for the regime.
Irene Fernndez-Molina is a Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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