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Home page  About CSIS Programs Middle East Program The U.S., the EU and Middle East Reform
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The U.S., the EU and Middle East Reform
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From January 29 to February 3, CSIS led a group of twelve American and European experts on a five-day study tour to Morocco to examine the issue of reform in the Arab world. The group, composed of leading specialists on development, European Union policy toward the Mediterranean world, the sociology of the Arab world, Morocco and the Middle East more broadly, first sought to analyze the reform process that Morocco has recently undertaken. Secondly, the group evaluated the international community’s political and social development programs in Morocco, looking especially at potential cooperation and coordination between the United States, the EU and individual European countries.
The initial report offers a summary of the CSIS trip, representing the diversity of views that participants heard on the ground. It starts by offering a historical look at the reform process, and then examines three areas in which reform efforts have been especially concentrated: freedom of speech, women’s rights, and an equity and reconciliation process that examines past human rights abuses. The report then considers the challenges of decentralization of government power and political liberalization, finally turning to an evaluation of the pace of reform and the role of outside forces in encouraging it. In the coming months, CSIS will author and release a full-length analytical study detailing U.S. and European efforts to promote reform in Morocco and assessing the potential for increased cooperation
This report will be followed by an in depth monograph, written by Fellow Haim Malka. |
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