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The Maghreb's subordinate position in the world's political economy.

Area studies and geostrategic conventions have shaped a longstanding tendency to think of the world as regional blocs. Yet, in the context of regional studies, analysts typically focus on individual country cases. They often offer country comparisons within a region; at other times, they brave cross-regional contrasts. Such approaches certainly have merit in reaffirming the central importance of choices made by policy makers and challenging a structuralist tendency to dismiss country-level specificities. (2) They can also offer valuable insights into the character of dynamic change within countries.

Nonetheless, a country-level, statist approach remains problematic in the ...

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