/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