Setting Priorities: Algeria’s Foreign Policy and Opportunities for Moscow

... population), historical (from the Almoravid and Almohad empires to the colonial era), sectarian (Maliki madhhab), dialectal and cultural commonalities, real integration projects in the Maghreb – from the ideas of the North African Star to the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), which has held no heads of states meetings since 1994 – have never enjoyed much success. Moreover, at the bilateral level, Algeria’s relationship with its neighbors has repeatedly been marred by more or less deep crises and, in the case ...