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U.S. policy towards North Africa: three overarching themes.
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Middle East Policy
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December 22, 2007
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Until quite recently, given the diversity of North Africa, it would have been difficult to talk in a coherent manner about U.S. policy towards the region as a whole. In Morocco, Washington was dealing with a monarchy with longstanding ties to the United States. Algeria, by contrast, has had troubled political (although surprisingly close economic) relations with the United States since its independence and in the 1990s was in the grips of a bloody civil war. Tunisia, like Morocco, has had close political ties with the United States, but its small size and its republican, but still authoritarian, political system presented distinctive political challenges. Libya was treated as a ...
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