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"Focusing on China's relations with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this Companion provides essential analysis of a complex region which threatens to become the battleground for rival powers in the future. The Companion brings together China scholars from around the world, including from China, the MENA region, the United States, Asia, and Europe. The contributors, experts in their respective areas - which range from politics, military and nuclear power to economics, energy, and tourism - use different methodologies to understand China's policies in the MENA. Topics analysed include Chinese investment in infrastructure, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Belt and Road Initiative. Divided into three parts, the book addresses China's multidimensional presence in the MENA and its impact on the region whilst also explicating the MENA's relations with its traditional Western allies. Bilateral relations and people-to-people interactions are also explored and provide in-depth context to the areas of cooperation that are part of China's dealings with its partners in the region. Combining contemporary analysis with accessible prose, the book will be of interest to students, scholars, and policymakers active in international relations, security studies and economics, as well to general audiences interested in the MENA region"--

"Focusing on China's relations with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this Companion provides essential analysis of a complex region which threatens to become the battleground for rival powers in the future. The Companion brings together China scholars from around the world, including from China, the MENA region, the United States, Asia, and Europe. The contributors, experts in their respective areas - which range from politics, military and nuclear power to economics, energy, and tourism - use different methodologies to understand China's policies in the MENA. Topics analysed include Chinese investment in infrastructure, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Belt and Road Initiative. Divided into three parts, the book addresses China's multidimensional presence in the MENA and its impact on the region whilst also explicating the MENA's relations with its traditional Western allies. Bilateral relations and people-to-people interactions are also explored and provide in-depth context to the areas of cooperation that are part of China's dealings with its partners in the region. Combining contemporary analysis with accessible prose, the book will be of interest to students, scholars, and policymakers active in international relations, security studies and economics, as well to general audiences interested in the MENA region"--

The transformation, which is unfolding in emerging European countries is a unique historic event. In several countries, the transition has been quite positive; most analysts anticipate continued real growth in the coming years. While opportunities in that region are numerous, doing business may prove, as in any other foreign country, quite complex.Doing Business in Emerging Europe is a user-friendly guide to doing business in Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Ukraine constitute a chapter. Brief overviews of Bosnia-Herz

Postcolonial dialectics of civil society / Clement Moore Henry -- State and civil society in Algeria / Yahia H. Zoubir -- Economic reform and elusive political change in Morocco / Azzedine Layachi -- Regime type, economic reform, and political change in Tunisia / Robert J. King -- Political and economic developments in Libya in the 1990s / Mary-Jane Deeb -- The Maghreb in the 1990s : approaches to an understanding of change / Claire Spencer -- Maghrebi youth : between alienation and integration / Mohamed Farid Azzi -- Human rights in the Maghreb / Youcef Bouandel -- Commitment and critique : Francophone intellectuals in the Maghreb / Patricia Geesey -- The Maghrebi economies as emerging markets? / Nora Ann Colton -- The Arab Maghreb Union : myth and reality / Robert A. Mortimer -- The geopolitics of the Western Sahara conflict / Yahia H. Zoubir -- Foreign arms sales and the military balance in the Maghreb / Daniel Volman -- United States policy in the Maghreb / Yahia H. Zoubir and Stephen Zunes -- The European Union and the Maghreb in the 1990s / George Joffé

AbstractThis article studies China's political and military relations with Algeria, a North African middle power. It tries to do through Role Theory, which has been enriched by incorporating the notion of hedging. The National Role Conception provides a good framework, for it shows that the overlapping roles of Algeria and China have helped consolidate their ties. Both China and Algeria have expectations from one another; the article demonstrates that though each has fulfilled the other's expectations, China has not fully done so regarding the conflict in Western Sahara without however resulting in distrust or tensions between the two. On the contrary, in view of the reconfiguration taking place in the international system, as well as in the immediate environment, the article advances the proposition that Algeria, historically a staunch nonaligned nation, has recently hedged China to defend against mounting threats. Algeria hedges China as 'geopolitical insurance policy'. Furthermore, Algeria participated at the 14th BRICS Summit in June 2022; its eventual membership will consolidate Sino‐Algerian relations and will enable both countries to continue playing their self‐attributed roles.

The collapse of the Muammar Qaddafi regime was ostensibly the prelude to a democratic Libya. The 2012 election elicited much optimism. By 2014, the domestic situation had taken an unexpected turn for the worse, resulting in two governments, one in the east and one in the west, each supported by numerous militias. While the civil war has pitted Libyans against Libyans, foreign interventions on behalf of opposite side in the conflict have hindered the end of the civil war. Indisputably, foreign interference had begun well before the civil war; however, the military backing to the protagonists has become more pronounced since 2014. The foreign powers involved in the Libyan conflict aim to fulfill specific interests, some of which deriving from the rivalries between those countries. Unless those foreign powers have achieved their goals in Libya, an end to the civil war anytime soon remains unlikely, occasional ceasefires notwithstanding.

Cet article explore la manière dont se sont construites et ont évolué les relations entre la Chine et trois pays du Maghreb (Maroc, Algérie et Tunisie). Il montre la place prépondérante qu'occupe l'Algérie dans les relations entre la Chine et Maghreb, hier comme aujourd'hui. Il interroge les fondements de ces relations aux intérêts multiples et les met en perspective en décrivant notamment le passage d'une solidarité aux fondements idéologiques à des relations économiques aux fondements plus pragmatiques. Inscrivant, sa présence dans sa stratégie globale, notamment via les forums sino-arabes et sino-africains et de la nouvelle route de la soie, la Chine privilégie l'échelle bilatérale dans ses relations avec les pays du Maghreb.

"Civil Strife, Politics, and Religion in Algeria" published on by Oxford University Press.