https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-syhwa-1b8237f
On migration, monarchy, and legitimacy.
Merouan Mekouar, professor of development studies at York University in Toronto, gives Alex and Lee an in-depth view of a country at the centre of multiple tendencies.
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What actually happened with the stream of migrants at the Moroccan border with Ceuta (Spain)?
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How much of a pressure valve does outward migration provide in Morocco?
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What does Moroccan neoliberalism look like? What is elite cooptation?
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How has Morocco avoided mass protest ,and what does the monarchy’s legitimacy rest on?
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How it Morocco pursuing “polyalignment”, between China, US, EU…?
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What’s up with the massive infrastructure push ahead of the 2030 World Cup which Morocco will co-host?
Links:
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Beyond the Model Reform Image: Morocco’s Politics of Elite Co-Optation, Merouan Mekouar, GIGA
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Doing Research as a Native: A Guide for Fieldwork in Illiberal and Non-Democratic States, Kira D. Jumet and Merouan Mekouar (eds), OUP
