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Regional Economic Union in the Maghreb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Ahmed Aghrout  and
Keith Sutton
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The establishment of the Union du Maghreb arabe (U.M.A.) at the 1989 summit held in Marrakech is the culmination of over three decades of pan-Maghreb rhetoric. As claimed recently, there have been plenty of joint agreements on paper, but ‘unfortunately the importance given to these events is inversely proportional to their real application and effectiveness’.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 115 - 139
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