ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction and analytical framework

chapter 2|30 pages

The tribulations of a ‘territorial champion'

The international management of a changing Western Sahara conflict

chapter 5|30 pages

Moments of truth and paybacks

From the Advanced Status to the Arab Spring

chapter 7|24 pages

An uneasy loyalty

Remaining a ‘good ally' of the United States in times of Middle East turmoil

chapter |8 pages

Conclusions