Yahia H Zoubir
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 199775 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yahia H Zoubir |
| NOMBRES | Yahia H |
| APELLIDO | Zoubir |
| FIRMA | ZOUBIR Y H |
| AFILIACIONES | International School of Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4234-6862 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 227 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Military Presence of Foreign Powers in the Horn of Africa
The current literature on the study of rivalries in international relations focuses on “scrambling rivalry,” whose underpinning logic is that actors try to maximize their positional, spatial, ideological, and interventional influence in resource-rich regions. However, in the last three decades the Horn of Africa, an area with relatively poor natural resources, fragile states, and conflict-prone interstate relations, has hosted thousands of foreig…
Algeria and China
This article studies China's political and military relations with Algeria, a North African middle power. It tries to do through Role Theory, which has been enriched by incorporating the notion of hedging. The National Role Conception provides a good framework, for it shows that the overlapping roles of Algeria and China have helped consolidate their ties. Both China and Algeria have expectations from one another; the article demonstrates that th…
The Fate of Mankind Is Again Closely Intertwined with the Fate of Russia”
We have asked leading intellectuals from countries outside the Western community to share their thoughts
Routledge Companion to China and the Middle East and North Africa
China in the Mediterranean
China in the Southern Mediterranean
This article analyses the evolution of China's political and economic relations with the Greater Maghreb States (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia), a major part of the Southern Mediterranean that has attracted foreign powers. It discusses how China has gradually incorporated the Southern Mediterranean states into the New Silk Road through bilateral and multilateral relations, strategic partnerships, and the development of intercon…
Alger au Sahel
Entourée d'une Libye et d'un Sahel plongés dans la tourmente, Alger tente de redéfinir son rôle régional après la longue parenthèse Bouteflika. Puissance incontournable de la région, elle joue pour ce faire de son héritage d'une diplomatie de dialogue, affirmant de plus en plus ses choix propres : coopérations bilatérales, organisation d'une réponse régionale à l'instabilité, diplomatie économique, dans une logique qui demeure méfiante vis-à-vis …
Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst Covid-19 and a Contested World Order
The COVID-19 pandemic has offered China a unique opportunity for worldwide deployment of its longstanding health diplomacy, renamed the Health Silk Road (HSR), now an integral part of its Belt and Road Initiative. As a self-proclaimed South-South collaborator and developer,Footnote1
‘A Giant Afraid of its Shadow’
This chapter examines Algeria’s foreign policy from the perspective of the concept of “middlepowermanship.” As a middle power, Algeria has adopted many roles to protect its national interests and the preservation of its regime. The main argument in this chapter is that Algeria was destined to be a middle power, but for reasons that will be elucidated, policymakers have refrained from advancing the state as a middle power with the potential of bei…
The Protracted Civil War in Libya
The collapse of the Muammar Qaddafi regime was ostensibly the prelude to a democratic Libya. The 2012 election elicited much optimism. By 2014, the domestic situation had taken an unexpected turn for the worse, resulting in two governments, one in the east and one in the west, each supported by numerous militias. While the civil war has pitted Libyans against Libyans, foreign interventions on behalf of opposite side in the conflict have hindered …
Securing China’s ‘Latent Power’
China’s military presence and seaport constructions in the West Pacific and the Indian Ocean have prompted hostile reactions from the US, Japan, Australia, and India. Conversely, its dual-use base in Djibouti has not generated as much controversy hitherto. To decipher this enigma, the article analyzes the base within the context of China’s ‘latent power.’ China cultivates latent power for economic interests in the Middle East and Africa, while do…
Resisting Change
Abtstract A recurrent question is whether Islamist parties surreptitiously capitalize on political change to weaken or establish their own authoritarianism. In this article, we contend that the answer to this question depends largely on how ruling elites in authoritarian systems structure and manage the Islamist marketplace, thus affecting the position of Islam in politics and society. In our comparative analysis of Tunisia and Algeria, we distin…
The Politics of Algeria
Politics of Algeria
Les relations de la Chine avec les pays du Maghreb
Cet article explore la manière dont se sont construites et ont évolué les relations entre la Chine et trois pays du Maghreb (Maroc, Algérie et Tunisie). Il montre la place prépondérante qu’occupe l’Algérie dans les relations entre la Chine et Maghreb, hier comme aujourd’hui. Il interroge les fondements de ces relations aux intérêts multiples et les met en perspective en décrivant notamment le passage d’une solidarité aux fondements idéologiques à…
Conflict in Western Sahara
The Cold War came to an end; however, the conflict in Western Sahara has yet to be definitively resolved. This chapter asserts that outside powers, particularly UN Security Council members France and the United States and to a lesser degree Great Britain, has prevented the resolution of this dispute. It demonstrates US support for Morocco in this conflict has been consistent. However, official US position, at least publicly, showed a degree of co…
The Struggle of the Women’s Movements in Neo-patriarchal Libya
After the 2011 revolution, the new Libyan authorities launched a political and constitutional debate, which focused, inter alia , on democracy and the role of women in the new order. The autonomous initiatives of women’s associations, which demanded female quotas and equal rights, is an important aspect of the post-revolution reality and highlights the contradictions between the cultural conditions and the policies of the authoritarian past in a …
Political Islam in Tunisia
One of the main objectives of Anne Wolf's excellent book is to debunk the myth of Tunisia as a beacon of secularism in the Arab–Islamic world (p. 11). Indeed, foreign governments and academics alike, with a few exceptions, held the far-fetched view that Tunisia was the sole example of an Arab–Islamic country in which Islam's role was somehow less significant. The prevailing perception was that both western-oriented President Habib Bourguiba and h…
China’s Participation in Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and North Africa
‘Quasi-mediation diplomacy’ refers to the role a ‘mediating’ state plays in international activities to defend its commercial, political and diplomatic interests rather than core security and strategic interests. This type of mediator acts without seeking to dominate; to follow rather than to lead; to partake in the revision of the agenda rather than setting it; and, to encourage conflict de-escalation in lieu of determinedly engaging in conflict…
Development First”
Seaports are crucial pivots connecting a state’s national economy with the world economy. As the largest developing country and one of the largest seaport constructors and operators in the world, China insists on the importance of improving people’s livelihood by building key seaports infrastructure, airports, power plants, highways, and railways. Invited by the host countries, China has participated broadly in the construction and operations of …
The Eagle's Nest in the Horn of Africa
Djibouti is the only country in the world in which US, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese military forces are stationed simultaneously; China will soon have a presence there as well. The US military deployment in Djibouti has shifted from a soft military presence to an arrangement of significant strategic import, and from a small outpost to a large garrison in the past two decades. The internal dynamics of the US deployment are geopol…
China's Economic Diplomacy towards the Arab Countries
Since the outbreak of the Arab revolts in late 2010, China has adhered to its ‘business-first’ economic diplomacy towards the Arab countries, a policy driven by China's ongoing geoeconomic interests. The ten-year-old China–Arab States Cooperation Forum serves as the nucleus for China's economic diplomacy in the region. The Chinese authorities have also initiated interagency coordination and central–local governments' power sharing in order to pur…
Algeria's Roles in the OAU/African Union
Even prior to the country's independence, Africa has always been central to Algeria's foreign policy. Algerian nationalists not only found support on the African continent in their struggle for independence, but they also sought to contribute to the decolonization of Africa and to free it from all forms of neocolonialism. Algerian diplomacy became even more involved in African affairs after independence. Using the Role Approach, this article show…
Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
This cutting-edge, and at the same time lively and accessible, examination of the domestic politics of the Middle East has been carefully designed to meet the needs of the university classroom. Eight thematic chapters introduce the subject and explore the region-wide dynamics of governments and oppositions, international politics, political economy, civil society, religion and politics, identity politics, and gender and family issues. These theme…
The United States and Maghreb-Sahel security
Although the Maghreb has never been a priority, it now represents a region of significant interest for the United States. The importance of the Maghreb, and its Sahel extension, springs first from political and economic/energy interests, and second, from military, strategic and security concerns. The first relates to America's energy needs in the region, as well as to the regionalization that could create a potentially lucrative market for US bus…
China’s Participation in Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and North Africa
‘Quasi-mediation diplomacy’ refers to the role a ‘mediating’ state plays in international activities to defend its commercial, political and diplomatic interests rather than core security and strategic interests. This type of mediator acts without seeking to dominate; to follow rather than to lead; to partake in the revision of the agenda rather than setting it; and, to encourage conflict de-escalation in lieu of determinedly engaging in conflict…
Conflicting International Policies and the Western Sahara Stalemate
The Western Sahara conflict is a 32-year old case of decolonisation that has been on the UN Security Council's agenda since 1991. Despite the straightforwardness of the stalemate in terms of international legality, the UN has been unable to implement its own provisions on the issue. The UN's failure is due to the contradictions arising from the interaction throughout the conflict between international law and geopolitics. Morocco's supporters in …
China's Economic Diplomacy towards the Arab Countries
Since the outbreak of the Arab revolts in late 2010, China has adhered to its ‘business-first’ economic diplomacy towards the Arab countries, a policy driven by China's ongoing geoeconomic interests. The ten-year-old China–Arab States Cooperation Forum serves as the nucleus for China's economic diplomacy in the region. The Chinese authorities have also initiated interagency coordination and central–local governments' power sharing in order to pur…
The United States and the North African Imbroglio
In this article, US policy towards the Western Sahara conflict is analysed from a geopolitical perspective. It is postulated that after 9/11, the US favoured a “compromise” that, while still favourable to Morocco's interests, offered Algeria and the Polisario Front a way out of the stalemate. Acceptance of the Baker Plan II would seem to promise a reawakening of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA). Because the conflict is seen as an obstacle to other st…
Morocco, Western Sahara and the future of the Maghrib
Four years after the death of King Hassan II, it is necessary to assess the domestic situation in Morocco and also to analyse the question of Western Sahara, a conflict that is often neglected. Undoubtedly, the conflict has domestic, regional and international implications for the Kingdom of Morocco. The early months of his successor's rule suggested that rapid change was on its way. The reality, however, is that, after an initial flurry of activ…
Stalled democratization of an authoritarian regime
Algeria has experienced important transformations since the bloody riots of October 1988. Numerous political reforms have been initiated, due to the pressure exerted by an emerging civil society; also the regime has been subject to fragmentation, thus exacerbating the power struggle among various political clans. The now‐banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), emerging as the most powerful party, eclipsed the old ruling party, the National Liberati…
The Western Sahara Conflict
King Hassan II of Morocco informed the French press in December 1988 that he was willing to talk to the Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el-Hamra y Río de Oro, known as the Polisario Front, which had been waging a war of national independence during the previous 15 years.
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
Introduction Origins and Development of the Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia H. Zoubir Spain, France, and the Western Sahara: A Historical Narrative and Study of National Transformation by Phillip C. Naylor The United States in the Saharan War: A Case of Low-Intensity Intervention by Stephen Zunes U.S. Strategic Interests and the War in the Western Sahara by Richard B. Parker Moscow, the Maghreb, and Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia…
Anti-Americanism in North Africa
Anti-Americanism in North Africa is a complex phenomenon that can be analysed at two levels. The first level relates to the Maghribi governments' relationship – cooperative or hostile – with the United States. Traditionally, Tunisia and Morocco have maintained steady cooperation with the US, while for Algeria and Libya cooperation has only recently become a strategic choice. The second level relates to Maghribi public opinion. Although opinion po…
Algerian-Moroccan relations and their impact on Maghribi integration
Overall, Algerian‐Moroccan relations have always been at odds, the existence since 1989 of the Arab Maghrib Union (UMA) notwithstanding. In fact, the UMA has not been operational due precisely to tension between the two countries. Strained relations derive from a historical and post‐colonial evolution ‐ dominated by power politics ‐of which Western Sahara is only one, albeit major, aspect. Thus, a definitive resolution of the Western Sahara confl…
S talemate in W estern S ahara
The resurgence of algeria's foreign policy in the twenty-first century
U.S. and Soviet Policies towards France’s Struggle with Anticolonial Nationalism in North Africa
Decolonization of French North Africa in the aftermath of WW II confronted the United States and the Soviet Union with a formidable dilemma. For dissimilar reasons both needed to maintain good relations with France. For the U.S., preserving the cohesion of the Atlantic alliance was paramount, whereas for the U.S.S.R eliciting French support in countering the rearmament of Germany and its integration into NATO was of greater importance than endors…
The Algerian crisis in European and US foreign policies
Algeria's process of political liberalisation in the late 1980s failed to produce genuine transition to democracy. Instead, the country experienced a dreadful decade-long crisis, which besides affecting its societal development, had wider domestic and international repercussions. Despite the attention it drew, deep understanding of the drama failed to prevail. The reactions the crisis induced in Europe and the United States were informed by diffe…
Libya in US foreign policy
Since the mid 1970s relations between the USA and Libya have been antagonistic. The radical policies the regime of Muammar Qadaaffi has pursued have made Libya one of the USA's bêtes noires . The reasons for US antagonism derive from Libya's repression at home, its alleged support for terrorism and for radical movements opposed to US interests, its staunch opposition to Israel, and its anti-Western rhetoric. Libya's hostility towards the USA rest…
The Algerian crisis in world affairs
A pivotal state is so important regionally that its collapse would spell transboundary mayhem: migration, communal violence, pollution and disease. A pivotal state's steady economic progress and stability, on the other hand, would bolster its region's economic vitality and political soundness.’ The Algerian case is examined in this context
Algeria's elections
Faced with a political stalemate which paralysed Algeria's political life when the military intervened to cancel the results of the December 1991 election, the authorities have been searching for a way to return to the democratic process. General Zeroual, appointed President in January 1994, and his collaborators have introduced a series of political reforms aimed at establishing a working democratic system. Algeria and its rulers seem to have le…
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst Covid-19 and a Contested World Order
The COVID-19 pandemic has offered China a unique opportunity for worldwide deployment of its longstanding health diplomacy, renamed the Health Silk Road (HSR), now an integral part of its Belt and Road Initiative. As a self-proclaimed South-South collaborator and developer,Footnote1
Development First”
Seaports are crucial pivots connecting a state’s national economy with the world economy. As the largest developing country and one of the largest seaport constructors and operators in the world, China insists on the importance of improving people’s livelihood by building key seaports infrastructure, airports, power plants, highways, and railways. Invited by the host countries, China has participated broadly in the construction and operations of …
The End of the Libyan Dictatorship
The 42-year dictatorship in Libya finally collapsed in October 2011; it took the Western-backed armed uprising seven months of intensive fighting to defeat Qaddafi's loyalist forces. The fall of the Qaddafi regime is a welcome development in the Middle East and North Africa region. But, unlike Tunisia or Egypt, Libya does not have a standing army or a reliable potential force that can bring the necessary stability for a political transition. The …
Sentry Box in the Backyard
Foreign military bases are the important means for power projection. In Africa, military bases represent the symbol of France’s sphere of influence, which have strengthened France’s protection of her economic, political, cultural, overseas national and security interests. The bases are of great significance to enhance French intervention capabilities, making France the most influential external power in the African continent. After the upheavals …
The United States, the Soviet Union and decolonization of the Maghreb, 1945–62
superpowers due to their particular interests in the region and to the value they accorded to their respective relationship with the colonial power, namely, France. Although the decolonization of Morocco and Tunisia caused minimal tension between France and the two superpowers because of the non-violent character of the process, the moderation of the nationalist leaders, and the colonial status of these two countries - both were protectorates - t…
Routledge Companion to China and the Middle East and North Africa
A lgeria's P ath to R eform
Western Sahara Conflict Impedes Maghrib Unity
The Western Sahara Conflict
King Hassan II of Morocco informed the French press in December 1988 that he was willing to talk to the Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el-Hamra y Río de Oro, known as the Polisario Front, which had been waging a war of national independence during the previous 15 years.
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
The war in the Western Sahara recently entered its sixteenth year. Although progress toward peace has been made, concrete steps to a final resolution have not yet occurred. This has had serious political, social, economic, and military consequences for the countries in the region. Despite the significance of the issue, until now very few scholarly works have dealt with the regional and international dimensions of the conflict. In particular, litt…
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
Introduction Origins and Development of the Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia H. Zoubir Spain, France, and the Western Sahara: A Historical Narrative and Study of National Transformation by Phillip C. Naylor The United States in the Saharan War: A Case of Low-Intensity Intervention by Stephen Zunes U.S. Strategic Interests and the War in the Western Sahara by Richard B. Parker Moscow, the Maghreb, and Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia…
The United States, the Soviet Union and decolonization of the Maghreb, 1945–62
superpowers due to their particular interests in the region and to the value they accorded to their respective relationship with the colonial power, namely, France. Although the decolonization of Morocco and Tunisia caused minimal tension between France and the two superpowers because of the non-violent character of the process, the moderation of the nationalist leaders, and the colonial status of these two countries - both were protectorates - t…
U.S. and Soviet Policies towards France’s Struggle with Anticolonial Nationalism in North Africa
Decolonization of French North Africa in the aftermath of WW II confronted the United States and the Soviet Union with a formidable dilemma. For dissimilar reasons both needed to maintain good relations with France. For the U.S., preserving the cohesion of the Atlantic alliance was paramount, whereas for the U.S.S.R eliciting French support in countering the rearmament of Germany and its integration into NATO was of greater importance than endors…
Stalled democratization of an authoritarian regime
Algeria has experienced important transformations since the bloody riots of October 1988. Numerous political reforms have been initiated, due to the pressure exerted by an emerging civil society; also the regime has been subject to fragmentation, thus exacerbating the power struggle among various political clans. The now‐banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), emerging as the most powerful party, eclipsed the old ruling party, the National Liberati…
The United States and conflict in the Maghreb
Analysing the case of Western Sahara highlights the evolution of US policy towards the Maghreb; it demonstrates that American policy in the region has progressively shifted from reliance on multilateralism to a more pronounced unilateralism, although using the United Nations as an instrument to accomplish that objective. It also shows that the Bush Administration's espousal of the notion of a ‘New World Order’, and the Clinton Administration's ‘a…
Democracy and Islam in Malek Bennabi's Thought
The growth of political Islam in the 1970s and the possibility ofIslamist parties coming to power in various countries led many scholarsand political analysts to question the compatibility of Islam and democracy.Most studies have concentrated on popular Muslim thinkers whowere considered Islamic activists such as Sayyid Qutb or Abu ‘Ala Al-Maududi, but no attention has been paid to the thought of the remarkableAlgerian Islamic thinker, Malek Benn…
Islamism and the Algerian political crisis
The international responses to the conflict in Algeria can be placed within the context of the perceived rise of radical Islamism. Severe domestic social and economic problems, high population growth, high unemployment and the consequent delegitimisation of incumbent regimes are some of the suggested reasons for the increased radicalisation of Islam. The authors outline in a region‐to‐region approach the varied responses, and overall identify two…
Algeria's elections
Faced with a political stalemate which paralysed Algeria's political life when the military intervened to cancel the results of the December 1991 election, the authorities have been searching for a way to return to the democratic process. General Zeroual, appointed President in January 1994, and his collaborators have introduced a series of political reforms aimed at establishing a working democratic system. Algeria and its rulers seem to have le…
The legislative election of June 1997 and the future of the democratic transition in Algeria
Despite continuing political unrest and violence, Algeria edges towards a more pluralist political system
The Algerian political crisis
The Maghreb experienced social, political and economic problems in the 1980s. In Algeria, these problems have fed the growth of a wide‐spread and disparate Islamist movement. The movement resulted in the creation of several formal political parties after the riots of 1988. The most important among them was the FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) whose astounding ascent provoked an army‐backed coup in January 1992. The consequent decline into violence h…
North Africa in Transition
This collection of essays addresses the major problems of the Maghreb countries - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya - have faced since 1968 and the cultural and economic issues facing them today
The Algerian crisis in world affairs
A pivotal state is so important regionally that its collapse would spell transboundary mayhem: migration, communal violence, pollution and disease. A pivotal state's steady economic progress and stability, on the other hand, would bolster its region's economic vitality and political soundness.’ The Algerian case is examined in this context
Algerian-Moroccan relations and their impact on Maghribi integration
Overall, Algerian‐Moroccan relations have always been at odds, the existence since 1989 of the Arab Maghrib Union (UMA) notwithstanding. In fact, the UMA has not been operational due precisely to tension between the two countries. Strained relations derive from a historical and post‐colonial evolution ‐ dominated by power politics ‐of which Western Sahara is only one, albeit major, aspect. Thus, a definitive resolution of the Western Sahara confl…
North Africa in Transition
Algeria and U.S. Interests
Libya in US foreign policy
Since the mid 1970s relations between the USA and Libya have been antagonistic. The radical policies the regime of Muammar Qadaaffi has pursued have made Libya one of the USA's bêtes noires . The reasons for US antagonism derive from Libya's repression at home, its alleged support for terrorism and for radical movements opposed to US interests, its staunch opposition to Israel, and its anti-Western rhetoric. Libya's hostility towards the USA rest…
Western Saharan Deadlock
The resurgence of algeria's foreign policy in the twenty-first century
Morocco, Western Sahara and the future of the Maghrib
Four years after the death of King Hassan II, it is necessary to assess the domestic situation in Morocco and also to analyse the question of Western Sahara, a conflict that is often neglected. Undoubtedly, the conflict has domestic, regional and international implications for the Kingdom of Morocco. The early months of his successor's rule suggested that rapid change was on its way. The reality, however, is that, after an initial flurry of activ…
The United States and the North African Imbroglio
In this article, US policy towards the Western Sahara conflict is analysed from a geopolitical perspective. It is postulated that after 9/11, the US favoured a “compromise” that, while still favourable to Morocco's interests, offered Algeria and the Polisario Front a way out of the stalemate. Acceptance of the Baker Plan II would seem to promise a reawakening of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA). Because the conflict is seen as an obstacle to other st…
The United States and Libya
Anti-Americanism in North Africa
Anti-Americanism in North Africa is a complex phenomenon that can be analysed at two levels. The first level relates to the Maghribi governments' relationship – cooperative or hostile – with the United States. Traditionally, Tunisia and Morocco have maintained steady cooperation with the US, while for Algeria and Libya cooperation has only recently become a strategic choice. The second level relates to Maghribi public opinion. Although opinion po…
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