Maghreb Has Necessary Elements to Create Regional Entity (PCNS)
These are geographical proximity, economic and social interdependence and cognitive homogeneity, more specifically similarities in values, notes the Centre in a chapter entitled "The Maghreb in 2020: what findings for what perspective?" published in the PCNS annual report on the geopolitics of Africa -2021.
"After decades of wanderings, only a realistic community of interests based on a strategic consensus would be the way to inscribe the Maghreb in history," according to a study prepared by Rachid El Houdaigui, Senior Fellow at the Centre.
For him, the situation of the Maghreb in 2020 "accentuates the geopolitical fragility of the region and the disillusionment of the Maghrebians", who expected (...) the normalization of regional relations and the revival of the integration process.
Dealing with the Maghrebian dynamics during the year 2020, through the analysis of the stakes and their consequences on the regional geopolitical perspectives, the study also points out that the resurgence of several blocking elements has always "maintained the status quo" in the region.
The author of the study also expresses the hope that the launch of a political process reconciling elements of divergence can, through a knock-on effect, trigger a good dynamic of detente and cooperation.
"After decades of wanderings, only a realistic community of interests based on a strategic consensus would be the way to inscribe the Maghreb in history," according to a study prepared by Rachid El Houdaigui, Senior Fellow at the Centre.
For him, the situation of the Maghreb in 2020 "accentuates the geopolitical fragility of the region and the disillusionment of the Maghrebians", who expected (...) the normalization of regional relations and the revival of the integration process.
Dealing with the Maghrebian dynamics during the year 2020, through the analysis of the stakes and their consequences on the regional geopolitical perspectives, the study also points out that the resurgence of several blocking elements has always "maintained the status quo" in the region.
The author of the study also expresses the hope that the launch of a political process reconciling elements of divergence can, through a knock-on effect, trigger a good dynamic of detente and cooperation.