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06/04/2017

Morocco and Algeria: the pulse for primacy in the Maghreb (DIEEEO36-2017)

Morocco and Algeria have been, for decades, irreconcilable neighbors. Shortly after their respective independences, both countries took over the border disputes inherited from the colonial period, making them a casus belli. Another colonial inheritance, the Western Sahara issue, ended up distancing both nations towards incompatible positions. Far from advancing towards a rapprochement that surely would bring benefits to both sides of a border closed since 1994, both Maghrebi countries are experiencing an apparently irreversible estrangement thanks to their particular cold war in the diplomatic, economic and military spheres. The most prominent exponents of the hostilities include the arms race in which both are immersed and the vigorous pan-African diplomacy of Morocco, which, from its new membership in the African Union, might aspire to expel the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic from it, which might constitute a hard setback for Algeria, its main supporter.

Author: Pablo Moral Martín

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