Negotiating one's space: Moroccan youths' strategies to make themselves heard

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Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for politics in Morocco

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The Party of Justice and Development’s Pragmatic Politics

The PJD's pragmatic politics — intended to maintain the king’s support and appeal to heterogeneous constituencies — failed to protect the party from fragmentation and moves to weaken it.

Negotiating one's space: Moroccan youths' strategies to make themselves heard: Literature review

Literature review, EU-funded research for the “PRIME Youth”International audienceIn this literature review, Lalla Amina Drhimeur, a member of the Prime Youth ERC Research undertaken by the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University, focuses on the empirical studies that analyze Moroccan youth characteristics, political attitudes, or behaviors. The paper first examines what it means to be Moroccan. Then, it highlights youth participation within formal and informal spheres of politics to draw attention to the heterogeneity of the youth and the strategies they adopt to participate in collective action

Escape from Insignificance: How Moroccan youths radicalize in Europe

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The 2011 uprisings, power structures, and reforms in Morocco

International audienceThis chapter examines the regime logic and the incumbent political party’s governing practices (Party for Justice and Development) and what they meant for policy formulation and making after the 2011 uprisings in Morocco. During the protests that swept across the country in 2011, a new political consciousness rose advocating for the importance of democratic reforms, social justice and freedom. Under pressure, the King announced a new constitution that sought to grant the parliament more power and the judiciary more independence. Yet, the new constitution has also sought to preserve the King’s political and religious prerogatives, and to protect his executive powers over strategic issues. However, soon after the elections, the regime started showing signs of unwillingness to give up some of its prerogatives. The political elite was then faced with two choices: either to choose not to pursue democratic reforms, maintain the King’s consent and probably remain in power, or to challenge the regime by initiating reforms that would limit its power, grant political institutions more independence and therefore lose the King’s consent; this would mean an existential risk for any political party to survive. This chapter argues that the regime logic of preserving its prerogatives impeded policy reformulation, and the political elite was reluctant to pursue political reforms to maintain power. Hence the 2011 uprisings, which once sparked hope of reforms, failed to change the old political structure and the regime

Diaspora politics and religious diplomacy in Turkey and Morocco

International audience"This article aims to analyse the importance of diaspora politics and Islam in Turkey and Morocco. The main premise of the article is that both states have increasingly relied on diaspora politics and religious diplomacy to attain both domestic and foreign policy gains. Using a Most Different Systems Design (MDSD), this article first examines each country’s political framework to determine how diaspora politics and foreign policies are outlined. Then, it demonstrates how both states use diaspora politics and religious diplomacy to access their diaspora groups in European countries, enhance their regional and global influence, and alter domestic political arrangements to amass power.

Diaspora politics and religious diplomacy in Turkey and Morocco

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