The Moroccan-Algerian territorial disputes : origins of rivalry escalations

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

Lyamani, Adil

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

Maghraoui, Driss

أعضاء اللجنة

Grant, Audra
Migliorino, Nicola

الجامعة

جامعة الأخوين

الكلية

كلية الإنسانيات و العلوم الاجتماعية

القسم الأكاديمي

الدراسات الدولية و الدبلوماسية

دولة الجامعة

المغرب

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2007

الملخص الإنجليزي

The Moroccan-Algerian borders conflict is a case that represents the complexity and the specificity of the issue of territorial disputes.

Both colonial legacy represented by ambiguous borders between the two states and the indifference of the Algerian government of the time to the 1961 Moroccan-Algerian treaty could be seen as the main reasons of the military clash known as the October 1963 Sand War.

Also, the ongoing crisis of the Western Sahara, claimed by the Polisario Front and supported by the Algerian government, escalated the already existing Moroccan-Algerian antagonism despite their historical, geographical, linguistic and above all religious affinities.

The existence of other intervening variables -political, ideological and economic- remains of less importance and subordinate compared to the territorial factor and its symbolic, strategic and economic importance. The objective of this research is to examine the territorial explanation of war, and discuss how borders are so important to Morocco and Algeria that they directly contributed to extreme levels of rivalry escalation between the two ‘brother enemies’.

This thesis starts from the assumption that despite the fact that Morocco and Algeria have plain political, ideological, and economic differences; the territorial factor remains the main cause behind the 1963 Sand war and the ongoing Western Sahara issue.

التخصصات الرئيسية

العلوم الاجتماعية (متداخلة التخصصات)

عدد الصفحات

100

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

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