@article{1435515,
      recid = {1435515},
      author = {Oumazzane, Tarik,},
      title = {Regional integration in the Middle East and North Africa :  the Agadir Agreement and the political economy of trade and  peace /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {This book analyses and assesses the Agadir Agreements  impact on economic integration, its effect on political  cooperation, and its role in promoting peace between  participating countries in the Middle East and North Africa  (MENA). Since the Arab Spring of 2011, the geo-political  situation in MENA has further drifted towards instability  and uncertainty. Expert analysis of the region seems to  lurch from one crisis to another without moving beyond a  focus on conflict. Few scholars have recognised that the  MENA governments have long regarded regional economic  integration as a chief policy objective to facilitate  intra-regional trade and promote political cooperation and  peace. Realising the shortcomings of the various  integrative processes, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan  signed the Agadir Agreement in 2004. To this date, it  stands as one of the most significant economic agreements  in the MENA region. Taking into account this variety of  factors, this book offers a new assessment of the pull  between unity and disunity in the Middle East and North  Africa region. Dr Tarik Oumazzane is Lecturer in Middle  East / North Africa Studies in the Department of History at  the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He has taught  and convened several modules including: International  History of the Middle East and North Africa; War and Peace  in the Post-Arab Spring; Political Economy of Under  Development, International Relations and Global History and  Liberating Africa: Decolonisation, Development and the Cold  War.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1435515},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6452-3},
}