Economic Crisis And Political Change In North Africa

A collective effort by American and North African scholars, this volume provides a comprehensive analysis of recent economic, social, and political events in North Africa. It shows how the Maghrebi states and societies are currently at a very important junction as they try to adjust to different ways of doing things in new regional and international orders.

Using a political economy approach, the book focuses on a series of issues raised by the interaction between economic crisis and reform on the one hand, and political change or stagnation on the other. The author and his contributors provide a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of particular value to scholars and researchers of the Arab world in general and North Africa in particular.

Review: ?North African states and societies in the 1990s are at a critical juncture, inviting observers from outside, as well as from within. This collection is devoted to the various political and economic problems faced by this region.?-Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment