المصادر الثقافية للمتوسطية و مسألة التكامل في المغرب العربي

Abstract EN

This research paper aims to study the cultural resources of The Mediterraneanism and its relationship with the integration issue of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) regardless the classical constraints of integration in this area which presented traditionally since 1994; the date of the official Institutions deadlock of AMU.

This study focuses on the adjacent integration projects in the Mediterranean Basin launched since Barcelona Process in1995, then developed by the French initiative into The Union for Mediterranean (UfM) as a new entity in Paris summit in 2008.

In this paper, the researcher vision based on a postcolonial approach in an attempt to build a link between the AMU's disintegration and the role of The Mediterraneanism based on the Eurocentrism as an ancient European cultural discourse where the Mediterraneanism seems as a rival integration project to the AMU.

The researcher concluded that although its offered development opportunities via The UfM; the Mediterraneanism contributes in Arab Maghreb Union disintegration and it is covering its real aims which lead to the perpetuation of dependency.