Maghreb 2024: New Look

... existing Algeria vs Moroccorivalry [Володина, 2015]. Over the 1990 – 2000 period, the conflict shifted steadily to the periphery of the global as well as regional agenda, and started, as it seemed, to gradually lose its major role for the regional subsystem of relationships. As the two states were heavily concentrated on the problems of domestic political development throughout the 1990-s, after Abdelaziz Bouteflika came to power in Algeria and Mohammed VI became the King of Morocco, they exerted feeble efforts to bring about any rapprochement [Zoubir, 2000], notwithstanding the remaining controversy over the Western Sahara issue. However, by the end of the first decade of the 21st ...