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.