Abdul Nour Bin Antar
Researcher based at the French Institute for Political Science
26June 2011

Relations between the ‘brotherly’ Maghreb states – Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya – have been, and continue to be, marked by a structural specificity that sets them apart from each other. Recent developments, particularly the Tunisian intifada and the Libyan crisis, have further muddied the already murky waters of regional political relations...