/563/ Kingly Contradictions in Morocco ft. Merouan Mekouar

On migration, monarchy, and legitimacy.

Merouan Mekouar, professor of development studies at York University in Toronto, gives Alex and Lee an in-depth view of a country at the centre of multiple tendencies.

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What actually happened with the stream of migrants at the Moroccan border with Ceuta (Spain)?

How much of a pressure valve does outward migration provide in Morocco?

What does Moroccan neoliberalism look like? What is elite cooptation?

How has Morocco avoided mass protest ,and what does the monarchy's legitimacy rest on?

How it Morocco pursuing "polyalignment", between China, US, EU...?

What's up with the massive infrastructure push ahead of the 2030 World Cup which Morocco will co-host?

Links:

Beyond the Model Reform Image: Morocco’s Politics of Elite Co-Optation, Merouan Mekouar, GIGA

Doing Research as a Native: A Guide for Fieldwork in Illiberal and Non-Democratic States, Kira D. Jumet and Merouan Mekouar (eds), OUP