...Yossef Ben-Meir King Mohammed VI of Morocco has announced a national regionalization plan that includes the Western Sahara. Morocco's intention is to regionalize (or, essentially, decentralize) decision-making authority and management in socioeconomic development, political affairs, the judicial...

... expressed in this essay are his own. Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 decentralization in Morocco Arab Spring Mohammed VI sustainable development experiential training Human Development in the Arab Spring: Morocco’s Efforts to Shape Its Global Future Yossef Ben...

... practice, in spite of the recent hopes that the so-­called Arab Spring raised initially. Almost six years later, those hopes have not materialized, except perhaps in part in the case of Tunisia.15 Bicameral systems exist or have existed in the parliaments of Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Mauritania...

... of extremists who fl ed Morocco and Algeria in response to govern- ment repression.4 While many of these organizations are responding to legitimate social, economic, and cultural needs, they do provide al Qaeda with political 1. Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003). 2...

... in “Human Development in the Arab Spring: Morocco’s Efforts to Shape Its Global Future.” The author, president of the High Atlas Founda- tion, a Moroccan-­US nonprofit organization, looks at Morocco under King Mohammed VI, who since coming to power in 1999 has enacted political reforms that promote...

... Convergència i Unió, or CiU) have been crucial.9 But Catalonia’s interest in the countries bordering the shared sea goes its own way, beyond European interests. Various considerations have articulated relations with this large region stretching from Morocco to Turkey. Economic considerations include...

... and its twelve Mediterranean partners (Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey). Roderick Pace is director of the European Documentation and Research Centre at the University of Malta. Stelios Stavridis holds an Onassis...

..., in opportunity, in respect for all. I saw an interview of a young man in Morocco who was asked, “What do you think when you think of America?” And he said, “For me, America represents the hope of a better life.” Our country must continue to be that beacon of hope, that shining city on a hill that Presi...

... Palestine Libya Tunisia Jordan Iraq Kuwait Algeria Mauritania Morocco Lebanon Sudan Note: Author’s assessment, February 2017. have low social and economic indicators, and find it hard to meet the needs of their people...

..., Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. 6. The additional six states added under the Union for the Mediterranean are Albania, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Croatia, Monaco, and Montenegro. 7. See “EP Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly: Membership,” www...

... the government’s immigration poli- cies and its relationship with Morocco. Zapatero’s 2004 decision to legalize undocumented workers was presented by the Socialists as a vital measure to assimilate vast numbers of Moroccan and Algerian migrants before they fall into the hands of Islamist radicals.32 Hoping...

... 1995 the foreign ministers of the European Union and twelve southern Mediterranean states — Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority — convened in Barcelona, Spain, to pledge bilateral and multilat- eral...

..., and Portuguese minis- ters met with their counterparts from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania. Immigration was the primary topic, but globalization and anti- terrorism were also on the agenda. A major goal was to reinvigorate “secu- 62. Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, “Réalité d’un monde...

... and in twenty-­first place (5.40) in the power-distance dimension. Morocco, Iran, and Nigeria are at the high end, and Denmark, New Zealand, and the Netherlands rank the best. Finally, even in the two dimensions (assertiveness and gender egalitari- anism) in which no relationship between culture...