Routledge Handbook on the Modern Maghrib

This comprehensive Routledge Handbook on the Modern Maghrib introduces and analyses the region in its full complexity, focussing on the countries of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, as well as the regions of the northern and western Sahara. In addition to country studies that provide historical and geopolitical background, a series of thematic explorations engage with a range of social, linguistic, cultural and economic aspects, providing a rich mosaic of current scholarship on the region. Addressing important debates such as the volatile international relations among constituent states, the role of women in society and the environmental impact of climate change, the book considers natural resources, music, media and language, and revisits the history of borders and social tribal structures. What emerges is not only a variegated picture of the Maghrib as a complex and rapidly changing region, but one marked by stark contrasts and divergences among its constituent states based on their Ottoman and colonial experiences, their relationships with their Saharan and Mediterranean neighbours and their own political trajectories. This Handbook fills an important gap in knowledge on a region increasingly significant in European and American affairs, and will appeal to anyone interested in the history, economies and societies of North Africa.

George Joffé was a Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor at King's College London. He was the founding editor of the Journal of North African Studies and founder of the Centre of North African Studies in the UK. He served on the Board of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and of The Middle East in London magazine at SOAS University of London. He published prolifically and widely on the geopolitics of North Africa and the Middle East, climate change, energy security, extremism and regional economics.

Introduction Part I: Country Studies 1. The Maghrib Before Colonialism 2. Libya since 1835 and the Second Ottoman Occupation 3. Tunisia from 1830 and Ahmad Bey's Modernisation 4. Algeria from the French Invasion in 1830 5. Morocco under the Alawites from the 1600s 6. The Western Sahara 7. Regional Borders and the Modern State in North Africa Part II: Thematic Studies 8. The Geography of the Maghrib: Resources, Demographics and Climate Change 9. Economy and Society in the Maghrib after the Arab Spring 10. Women in the Maghrib: Legal, Political, and Social Context 11. Amazighité vs. `Uruba - Ethnicity in the Maghrib 12. Peoples of the Sahara 13. Language Policy and Polyglottism in the Maghrib 14. The Maghrib Musical Scene 15. The Maghrebi Multilingual Novel 16. Soccer: Moulding the Middle East and North Africa 17. Judaism in the Maghrib 18. Christianity in the Maghrib 19. The Role of Islam in the Maghrib: Salafism, Islamism, and Sufism 20. Political Islam and the Challenge of Participation in North Africa 21. Terrorism, Chaos and Conflagration in the Sahara and Sahel (2003-2021) 22. The 2011 Uprisings in North Africa: Causes and Consequences 23. Traditions of Governance in North Africa 24. The Tunisian Experience Post-2011: The Crisis of Democratization 25. Media in the Maghrib 26. Political Parties in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia 27. Between the Mediterranean and the Sahel: Inter- and Intra-Regional Affairs 28. Foreign Affairs of the Maghrib - Europe, the United States, Russia, the GCC and Turkey 29. The Maghrib Economies: A Perpetual Search for Relevance and Reform 30. The Role of Oil and Gas in the Maghrib