Bulletin n. 1/2008
May 2008
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Beurdeley Laurent
    Les stratégies sécuritaires américaine et européenne au Maghreb. Impacts sur le droits de l'homme et sur l'évolution politique des pays de la région
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , numero 518, mai ,  2008 ,  298-312
    Maghreb is considered a high vulnerability zone for international security. Americans and Europeans are applying themselves to curbing all sources of instability in the region in order to guarantee their geostrategic interests. The competition between the two leadership in the Maghreb area is patent but their action capacities (hard and soft) as well as their procedure are divergent. The western requirements for security (combating terrorism, illegal immigration, political Islam), which are abound with heavy economical conditions, have irreversible effects on the legislations and internal policies of the Maghreb States which have established an ever more drastic set of repressive measures (close to European standards). The democratic values advocated as much by Washington as by Bruxelles are often blithely scoffed at by the governments in place in the name of the security objective and, at best, only lead to an agreed reprobation of the Westerners. Faced with the fear of radical Islam developing, which not only feeds on pervading corruption but also from day-to-day oppression and the various compromises of principles of public authorities, moderate Islamists can turn out to be credible representatives and partners meaning that is necessary not to exclude them from political dialogue between the two sides of the Mare Nostrum.
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