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A prerequisite for discussion of this topic is a clear understanding of the meaning of ‘the Maghreb’. In terms of its historical and traditional concept, the Maghreb is a geographic entity extending from the Atlantic zone of Morocco to the Gulf of Gabès in Tunisia. From the point of view of its Arab and Berber population, and of relations between them, it is possible also to include the former Spanish Sahara and a large part of Mauritania as well as Libya’s Tripolitanian zone. In political and diplomatic terms, however, the whole of Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya, previously defined as a Mashreq country, has nonetheless been considered to be included in the Maghreb area. The case of Mauritania is different. The crisis in the Sahara has strengthened the role of Mauritania in the affairs of the Maghreb. Together with Tunisia, Mauritania has signed a Treaty of Fraternity and Harmony put forward by Algeria for the construction of the Greater Maghreb.
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M. Barbier, Le conflit du Sahara Occidental (Paris: Harmattan, 1982), pp. 235–6.
Ibid. pp. 280–90, and T. Hodges, Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War (Westport CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1983), pp. 241–304.
R. B. Parker, North Africa: Regional Tensions and Strategic Concerns (New York: Praeger, 1984), pp. 117, and Damis (op. cit., in note 2), pp. 123–5.
See P. Balta, ‘Factors de estabilidad e inestabilidad en el Maghreb’, Estrategia del Mediterraneo Occidental y del Maghreb (Madrid: Instituto de Cuestiones Intemacionales, 1983), pp. 166–7.
For further information on this Treaty see A. Marquina, ‘El Tratado Libio-Marroqu, repercusiones e incidencias en la politica exterior Espaola’, Revista de Estudios Internacionales, vol. 6, I (1985).
R. B. Parker, ‘Appointment in Oujda’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 63, 5 (1985).
Damis, (op. cit. in note 6); R. Otayek, La Politique Africaine de la Libye (Paris, 1986). Otayek defines it as the end of pan-Arabism, pp. 70–72.
See Kadhafi, Je suis un opposant à l’échelon mondial (Paris: Editions ABC, 1984), pp. 77, et seq.
See A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, ‘Le Maghreb un destin invitablement unitaire’, Revue Algérienne des Relations Internationales, 1 (1986).
J. Damis ‘Prospects for unity/disunity in North Africa’, American Arab Affairs no. 6, 1983, p. 37. He lists the problems that divide the two countries.
See J. Damis, ‘Les Relations Etats-Unis-Maroc’, Maghreb-Machrek, 111 (1986), pp. 5–23.
See A. Marquina ‘NATO, the EEC’, Gibraltar, North Africa: Overlapping issues for Spain’, The International Spectator, vol. 21, 1 (1986), pp. 46.
For further information on Spain’s North African territories see also A. Marquina, ‘Spain and its North African Enclaves’, in Spain, Studies in Political Security, The Washington Papers /117, D. del Pino, La Ultima Guerra con Marruecos: Ceuta y Melilla, (Madrid: Argos Vergara, December 1983).
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Marquina, A. (1988). Libya, the Maghreb and Mediterranean Security. In: O’Neill, R. (eds) Prospects for Security in the Mediterranean. International Institute for Strategic Studies conference papers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10513-7_10
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