North Africa in Transition: State, Society, and Economic Transformation in the 1990s

"Provides a comprehensive, clairvoyant, and rich study of a number of issues affecting the Maghreb on the eve of the 21st century."--Yehuda Lukacs, George Mason UniversityThis collection addresses the major problems that Maghreb countries--Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya--have faced in the last two decades and the cultural and economic issues facing them today, an unusually wide-ranging interdisciplinary study that brings together scholars from the region of North Africa itself as well as from the U.S. and Europe.ContentsIntroduction, by Yahia H. ZoubirPart I. Polity, Society, and the Economy in the Maghrebi Countries1. Post-Colonial Dialectics of Civil Society, by Clement Moore Henry2. State and Civil Society in Algeria, by Yahia H. Zoubir3. Economic Reform and the Elusive Political Change in Morocco, by Azzedine Layachi4. Regime Type, Economic Reform, and Political Change in Tunisia, by Robert J. King5. Political and Economic Developments in Libya in the 1990s, by Mary-Jane DeebPart II. Dynamics of Change in the Contemporary Maghreb6. The Maghreb in the 1990s: Approaches to an Understanding of Change, by Claire Spencer7. Maghrebi Youth: Between Alienation and Integration, by Mohamed Farid Azzi8. Human Rights in the Maghreb, by Youcef Bouandel9. Commitment and Critique: Francophone Intellectuals in the Maghreb, by Patricia Geesey10. The Maghrebi Economies as Emerging Markets? by Nora Ann Colton11.  The Arab Maghreb Union: Myth and Reality, by Robert A. MortimerPart III. The Maghreb in World Affairs12. The Geopolitics of the Western Sahara Conflict, by Yahia H. Zoubir13. Foreign Arms Sales and the Military Balance in the Maghreb, by Daniel Volman14. United States Policy in the Maghreb, by Yahia H. Zoubir and Stephen Zunes15. The European Union and the Maghreb in the 1990s, by George JofféYahia H. Zoubir is associate professor of international studies at Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, in Glendale, Arizona. He is the coeditor of International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict and has published dozens of articles and book chapters on North Africa. He is the editor-in-chief of Thunderbird International Business Review.