Regional Integration in the Middle East and North Africa

The Agadir Agreement and the Political Economy of Trade and Peace

Tarik Oumazzane (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

211 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-336-454-7 (ISBN)

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This book analyses and assesses the Agadir Agreement’s impact on economic integration, its effect on political cooperation, and its role in promoting peace between participating countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, the geo-political situation in MENA has further drifted towards instability and uncertainty. Expert analysis of the region seems to lurch from one crisis to another without moving beyond a focus on conflict. Few scholars have recognised that the MENA governments have long regarded regional economic integration as a chief policy objective to facilitate intra-regional trade and promote political cooperation and peace. Realising the shortcomings of the various integrative processes, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan signed the Agadir Agreement in 2004. To this date, it stands as one of the most significant economic agreements in the MENA region. Taking into account this variety of factors, this book offers a new assessmentof the pull between unity and disunity in the Middle East and North Africa region

Dr Tarik Oumazzane is Lecturer in Middle East / North Africa Studies in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He has taught and convened several modules including: ‘International History of the Middle East and North Africa’; ‘War and Peace in the Post-Arab Spring’; ‘Political Economy of Under Development’, ‘International Relations and Global History’ and ‘Liberating Africa: Decolonisation, Development and the Cold War’.

1.Introduction.- 2.Globalisation, the Global South and the place of the Middle East and North Africa.- 3. Regionalism and Integration in the Middle East and North Africa.- 4.The Political Economy of Agadir Member States: Towards Understanding the Agadir Agreement.- 5.The Agadir Agreement’s Impact on Economic Integration Processes.- 6.The Agadir Agreement’s Impact on Political Cooperation and Peace. Conclusions. Appendices.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	The Political Economy of the Middle East
Zusatzinfo	11 Illustrations, black and white; XXV, 211 p. 11 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Agadir Agreement • Commercial institutional peace in the MENA • Economic integration in the MENA • Free trade agreements in the MENA • Political Cooperation in the MENA • Regional integration in the MENA • Unity in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN-10	981-336-454-8 / 9813364548
ISBN-13	978-981-336-454-7 / 9789813364547
Zustand	Neuware