Title Regional integration in the Middle East and North Africa : the Agadir Agreement and the political economy of trade and peace / Tarik Oumazzane

Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series The political economy of the Middle East Political economy of the Middle East. Contents 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 Agreements Impact on Political Cooperation and Peace -- Conclusions -- Appendices Summary This book analyses and assesses the Agadir Agreements 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 assessment of 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 8, 2021) Subject Politics & government. International relations. Political Science -- International Relations -- General. Diplomatic relations International economic relations Politics and government SUBJECT Middle East -- Foreign economic relations -- Africa, North Africa, North -- Foreign economic relations -- Middle East Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Africa, North Africa, North -- Foreign relations -- Middle East Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century Africa, North -- Politics and government -- 21st century Subject Middle East North Africa Form Electronic book ISBN 9789813364523 9813364521

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