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  • Vol 49 No 1
  • 11/01/2008

Elite and underground politics

Islamist militants vie with ageing autocrats for political supremacy while the region’s voters look for jobs and security

  • Vol 48 No 1
  • 12/01/2007

Old soldiers never die

Intimations of mortality are becoming more evident but the region is dominated by septuagenarian zaims

  • Vol 47 No 1
  • 06/01/2006

Ponderous politicians

Political change is lagging well behind the governments' market economic strategies

  • Vol 46 No 1
  • 07/01/2005

Time to deliver

Despite the usual political pressures, North Africa's oil and gas producers, led by Algeria, Libya and Egypt, had a prosperous year. Their foreign reserves built up on the back of high prices, while old problems like foreign debt were left far behind....

  • Vol 45 No 1
  • 09/01/2004

Fresh start for old faces

Elections in Algeria and Tunisia, and Libya's opening to the West, will give familiar faces a new look. The Libyan regime watched Iraq like a hawk and President Saddam Hussein's overthrow must have encouraged Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to offer a Christma...

  • Vol 44 No 10
  • 16/05/2003

Hands across the water

After the Iraq war, the European Union looks south once again

  • Vol 44 No 1
  • 10/01/2003

A defining terror

Expanding economies and dealing with Islamism dominate policy

  • Vol 43 No 6
  • 22/03/2002

Cross-border pressures

Regional quarrels are rumbling across the Maghreb

  • Vol 43 No 5
  • 08/03/2002

Branch office

The European Commission is contemplating yet another development bank, this time to boost the integration of North Africa's economies into the European-Mediterranean market ­ a target far from achievement. The idea is strongly backed by the Commission...

  • Vol 43 No 1
  • 11/01/2002

Our American friends

America's disaster has paid dividends for anti-Islamist Muslim rulers

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