The course aims at a better knowledge of North Africa as a whole social and policy environment, integrating all the countries of the region commonly called the Great Maghreb: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. We will decide on different configurations of these state entities and their ideological path, as well as economic and political choices of each.
With the year 2011, the region has seen enormous changes that have contaminated the entire Arab world, prompting policy changes in Libya and Tunisia, with political reforms in Morocco and reformist tendencies in Mauritania and Algeria, which has made the region a precursor of change in the Arab-Islamic world. This region also plays a prominent role in the Mediterranean area which connects strategically to occidental space. The course will examine specifically: political regimes, political parties, political Islam, social identities, local antagonisms and relationships with the environment: African, European and Middle Eastern.
Required work and form of assessment:
Attendance and participation (15%), in-class midterm exam (30%), research paper 8 -10 pages due by week 10, (20%), final exam (35%).
content:
Week 1:Post independence state building: Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
- John Ruedy, Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).
- Clement Henry Moore, Tunisia Since Independence: The Dynamics of One-Party Government (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1965),
Week 2:Post independence state buildingMorocco, Mauritania,
- William Eagleton, Jr., “The Islamic Republic of Mauritania”, Middle East Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (winter, 1965), pp. 45-53
- Hella Pick, Independent Mauritania, the World Today, vol. 17, N° 4, &ç-&, pp. 149-158
Week 3: The role of political parties
- Frank Tachau (ed), Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa (London: Mansell, 1994).
- Clement Henry Moore, ‘Political Parties’ in I. William Zartman and William Mark Habeeb (Editors), Polity and Society in Contemporary North Africa (Boulder: Westview, 1993).
- Michael J. Willis, ‘Political Parties in the Maghreb: Ideology and Identification: A Suggested Typology’, The Journal of North African Studies (Volume 7, Number 3, 2002).
- Rkia El-Mossadeq, ‘Political Parties and Power Sharing’ in I. William Zartman (Editor), The Political Economy of Morocco (Praeger, New York, 1987).
Week 4. The rise of Islamism
- Emad Eldin Shahin, Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa (Boulder: Westview, 1997).
Week 5. Midterm exam
Week 6. Political Islam in the Maghreb
- John P. Entelis, ‘Political Islam in the Maghreb: The Nonviolent Dimension’ in Entelis (ed.) Islam, Democracy and the State in North Africa (Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1997).
- Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the Troubled Triangle: Populism, Islam and Civil society in the Arab World, International political science Review, Vol. 19, n° 4, 1989, pp. 373-385
Week 7. The political dimensions of amazigh identity
- Visit of IRCAM Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, meeting and discussions with researchers and students
David Crawford, ‘Morocco’s Invisible Imazighen’ The Journal of North African Studies (Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2002).
Azzedine Layachi, ‘The Berbers in Algeria: politicized Ethnicity and Ethnicized Politics’ in Maya Shatzmiller (Editor), Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2005).
Week 8. Be African in the Maghreb, African policy in North Africa the case of Morocco
Inquiries and investigations
Visit of IEA, Institute of African Studies, meeting and discussions with researchers Moroccan and sub Saharan African students.
- William Zartman, Foreign Relations of North Africa, Annals of the American Academy of political and social Science, vol. 489, 1987, pp. 13-27
- Michael Collyer, Undocumented Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco, in Ninna Nyberg Sørensendiis Editor, Mediterranean Transit Migration, Danish Institute for International Studies, 2006, pp. 129-145
Week 9. Political openings and regime maintenance
- Volker Perthes, “Politics and Elite Change in the Arab World,” In Volker Perthes (ed.), Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of Change (Boulder: Lynne Rienner 2004).
- Andrew R. Smith and Fadoua Loudiy, Testing the Red Lines: On the Liberalization of Speech in Morocco, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Aug., 2005), pp. 1069-1119
- Abdeslam Maghraoui, Political Authority in Crisis: Mohammed VI's Morocco, Middle East Report, No. 218 (Spring, 2001), pp. 12-17
- Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law, Middle East Journal, Vol. 59, No. 3, Democratization and Civil Society (Summer, 2005),pp. 393-41
Week 10. Regional relations inside Maghreb
- Robert A. Mortimer, ‘The Arab Maghreb Union: Myth and Reality’ in Yahia H. Zoubir (Editor), North Africa, in Transition (University Press of Florida, Florida, 1999).
- Mohammed Hedi Bchir, Hakim Ben Hammouda, Nassim Oulmane and MustaphaSadni Jallab, The Cost of Non-maghreb Achieving the Gains from Economic Integration, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2007), pp. 684-722
- Mohammed Hedi Bchir, Hakim Ben Hammouda, Nassim Oulmane and MustaphaSadni Jallab, The Cost of Non-maghreb Achieving the Gains from Economic Integration, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2007), pp. 684-722
Week 11: Regional relations; Africa and Sahel - Sahara, Mediterranean Area, Middle East
- Zaki Laïdi, Stability and Partnership in the Maghreb, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 481, (Sep., 1985), pp. 127-137
- Yahia H. Zoubir, The Western Sahara Conflict: Regional and International Dimensions The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1990), pp. 225-243
Week 12: North African-Arab Spring
- Lisa Anderson, Demystifying the Arab Spring Parsing the Differences between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, Foreign Affairs -May/June2011, 2-7
- Marion Dixon (2011): An Arab spring, Review of African Political Economy, 38:128, 309-316,
- Alfred Hermida, Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions, Paper presented at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, TX, April 2012,
- International Crisis Group, Popular Protest in North Africa and Middle East, making Sens of Libya, Report n° 107, - June 2011.
Required readings:
David E. Long and Bernard Reich (eds.). The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (Westview, Boulder, 4th Edition 2002).
Michael Bonner, Megan Reif, Mark Tessler (Editors). Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria (Routledge Curzon, London, 2005).
David and Marina Ottaway, Algeria: The Politics of a Socialist Revolution (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970).
Recommended readings:
Azzedine Layachi, ‘Islamism in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia and the Struggle for Change in R. Kevin Lacey and Ralph M. Coury (eds.), The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies, (USA, Peter Lang 2000).
I.W. Zartman (Editor). Political Elites in Arab North Africa (Longman, New York, 1982).
Rkia El-Mossadeq, ‘Political Parties and Power Sharing’ in I. William Zartman (Editor), The Political Economy of Morocco (Praeger, New York, 1987).
Michael J. Willis, 'Political Parties in the Maghreb: The Illusion of Significance?’ The Journal of North African Studies (Volume 7, Number 2, 2002).
Michael Collins Dunn, ‘The An-Nahda Movement in Tunisia: From Renaissance to Revolution’ in John Ruedy (ed.), Islamism and Secularism in North Africa (London: MacMillan, 1994)
Henry Munson, Religion and Power in Morocco (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993)
North African Politics
The course aims at a better knowledge of North Africa as a whole social and policy environment, integrating all the countries of the region commonly called the Great Maghreb: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. We will decide on different configurations of these state entities and their ideological path, as well as economic and political choices of each.
With the year 2011, the region has seen enormous changes that have contaminated the entire Arab world, prompting policy changes in Libya and Tunisia, with political reforms in Morocco and reformist tendencies in Mauritania and Algeria, which has made the region a precursor of change in the Arab-Islamic world. This region also plays a prominent role in the Mediterranean area which connects strategically to occidental space. The course will examine specifically: political regimes, political parties, political Islam, social identities, local antagonisms and relationships with the environment: African, European and Middle Eastern.
Attendance and participation (15%), in-class midterm exam (30%), research paper 8 -10 pages due by week 10, (20%), final exam (35%).
Week 1: Post independence state building: Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
- John Ruedy, Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).
- Clement Henry Moore, Tunisia Since Independence: The Dynamics of One-Party Government (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1965),
Wee k 2: Post independence state building Morocco, Mauritania,
- William Eagleton, Jr., “The Islamic Republic of Mauritania”, Middle East Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (winter, 1965), pp. 45-53
- Hella Pick, Independent Mauritania, the World Today, vol. 17, N° 4, &ç-&, pp. 149-158
Week 3: The role of political parties
- Frank Tachau (ed), Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa (London: Mansell, 1994).
- Clement Henry Moore, ‘Political Parties’ in I. William Zartman and William Mark Habeeb (Editors), Polity and Society in Contemporary North Africa (Boulder: Westview, 1993).
- Michael J. Willis, ‘Political Parties in the Maghreb: Ideology and Identification: A Suggested Typology’, The Journal of North African Studies (Volume 7, Number 3, 2002).
- Rkia El-Mossadeq, ‘Political Parties and Power Sharing’ in I. William Zartman (Editor), The Political Economy of Morocco (Praeger, New York, 1987).
Week 4. The rise of Islamism
- Emad Eldin Shahin, Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa (Boulder: Westview, 1997).
Week 5. Midterm exam
Week 6. Political Islam in the Maghreb
- John P. Entelis, ‘Political Islam in the Maghreb: The Nonviolent Dimension’ in Entelis (ed.) Islam, Democracy and the State in North Africa (Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1997).
- Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the Troubled Triangle: Populism, Islam and Civil society in the Arab World, International political science Review, Vol. 19, n° 4, 1989, pp. 373-385
Week 7. The political dimensions of amazigh identity
- Visit of IRCAM Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, meeting and discussions with researchers and students
David Crawford, ‘Morocco’s Invisible Imazighen’ The Journal of North African Studies (Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2002).
Azzedine Layachi, ‘The Berbers in Algeria: politicized Ethnicity and Ethnicized Politics’ in Maya Shatzmiller (Editor), Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies (McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2005).
Week 8. Be African in the Maghreb, African policy in North Africa the case of Morocco
Inquiries and investigations
- William Zartman, Foreign Relations of North Africa, Annals of the American Academy of political and social Science, vol. 489, 1987, pp. 13-27
- Michael Collyer, Undocumented Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco, in Ninna Nyberg Sørensendiis Editor, Mediterranean Transit Migration, Danish Institute for International Studies, 2006, pp. 129-145
Week 9. Political openings and regime maintenance
- Volker Perthes, “Politics and Elite Change in the Arab World,” In Volker Perthes (ed.), Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of Change (Boulder: Lynne Rienner 2004).
- Andrew R. Smith and Fadoua Loudiy, Testing the Red Lines: On the Liberalization of Speech in Morocco, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Aug., 2005), pp. 1069-1119
- Abdeslam Maghraoui, Political Authority in Crisis: Mohammed VI's Morocco, Middle East Report, No. 218 (Spring, 2001), pp. 12-17
- Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law, Middle East Journal, Vol. 59, No. 3, Democratization and Civil Society (Summer, 2005),pp. 393-41
Week 10. Regional relations inside Maghreb
- Robert A. Mortimer, ‘The Arab Maghreb Union: Myth and Reality’ in Yahia H. Zoubir (Editor), North Africa, in Transition (University Press of Florida, Florida, 1999).
- Mohammed Hedi Bchir, Hakim Ben Hammouda, Nassim Oulmane and MustaphaSadni Jallab, The Cost of Non-maghreb Achieving the Gains from Economic Integration, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2007), pp. 684-722
- Mohammed Hedi Bchir, Hakim Ben Hammouda, Nassim Oulmane and MustaphaSadni Jallab, The Cost of Non-maghreb Achieving the Gains from Economic Integration, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2007), pp. 684-722
Week 11: Regional relations; Africa and Sahel - Sahara, Mediterranean Area, Middle East
- Zaki Laïdi, Stability and Partnership in the Maghreb, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 481, (Sep., 1985), pp. 127-137
- Yahia H. Zoubir, The Western Sahara Conflict: Regional and International Dimensions The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1990), pp. 225-243
Week 12: North African-Arab Spring
- Lisa Anderson, Demystifying the Arab Spring Parsing the Differences between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, Foreign Affairs -May/June2011, 2-7
- Marion Dixon (2011): An Arab spring, Review of African Political Economy, 38:128, 309-316,
- Alfred Hermida, Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions, Paper presented at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, TX, April 2012,
- International Crisis Group, Popular Protest in North Africa and Middle East, making Sens of Libya, Report n° 107, - June 2011.
David E. Long and Bernard Reich (eds.). The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (Westview, Boulder, 4th Edition 2002).
Michael Bonner, Megan Reif, Mark Tessler (Editors). Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria (Routledge Curzon, London, 2005).
David and Marina Ottaway, Algeria: The Politics of a Socialist Revolution (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970).
Azzedine Layachi, ‘Islamism in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia and the Struggle for Change in R. Kevin Lacey and Ralph M. Coury (eds.), The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies, (USA, Peter Lang 2000).
I.W. Zartman (Editor). Political Elites in Arab North Africa (Longman, New York, 1982).
Rkia El-Mossadeq, ‘Political Parties and Power Sharing’ in I. William Zartman (Editor), The Political Economy of Morocco (Praeger, New York, 1987).
Michael J. Willis, 'Political Parties in the Maghreb: The Illusion of Significance?’ The Journal of North African Studies (Volume 7, Number 2, 2002).
Michael Collins Dunn, ‘The An-Nahda Movement in Tunisia: From Renaissance to Revolution’ in John Ruedy (ed.), Islamism and Secularism in North Africa (London: MacMillan, 1994)
Henry Munson, Religion and Power in Morocco (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993)