1st Edition

Foreign Policy in North Africa Navigating Global, Regional and Domestic Transformations

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. The ‘subaltern’ foreign policies of North African countries: old and new responses to economic dependence, regional insecurity and domestic political change

Irene Fernández-Molina, Laura Feliu and Miguel Hernando de Larramendi

2. Modelling for a living: two-level games and rhetorical action in the foreign debt negotiations of post-revolutionary Tunisia

Irene Fernández-Molina

3. The foreign policy of post-Mubarak Egypt and the strengthening of relations with Saudi Arabia: balancing between economic vulnerability and regional and regime security

Bárbara Azaola Piazza

4. The dilemmas of Algerian foreign policy since 2011: between normative entrapment and pragmatic responses to the new regional security challenges

Laurence Thieux

5. Moroccan foreign policy after the Arab Spring: a turn for the Islamists or persistence of royal leadership?

Yasmina Abouzzohour and Beatriz Tomé-Alonso

6. Internal dystrophy and international rivalry: the (de-)construction of Libyan foreign policy

Elvira Sánchez-Mateos

7. Weapons of the weak, and of the strong: Mauritanian foreign policy and the international dimensions of social activism

Francisco Freire

8. Doomed regionalism in a redrawn Maghreb? The changing shape of the rivalry between Algeria and Morocco in the post-2011 era

Miguel Hernando de Larramendi

Biography

Irene Fernández- Molina is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research deals with international relations of the Global South, foreign policies of dependent and/ or authoritarian states, conflicts, international socialisation and recognition, with a regional focus on North Africa, as well as EU foreign policy and Euro- Mediterranean relations.

Miguel Hernando de Larramendi is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, where he leads the Study Group on Arab and Muslim Societies (GRESAM) and the research project ‘Crises and Regional Processes of Change in North Africa’. His research focuses on political systems in the Maghreb and Spanish foreign policy towards the region.