Israel, Africa, and Libya: Morocco’s foreign policy trump cards

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Yasmina Abouzzohour, visiting fellow of the Brookings Doha Center (The Brookings Institution is a very influencial Washington, DC based US Think Tank) wrote a great piece on Morocco's new emboldened foreign policy. By diversifying its partners and allies, and opening up to the United States, Israel, China, sub-Saharan African countries; by its diplomatic involvement in Libya [outsmarting Berlin; my note], and by restoring its tumultuous relations with the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, Morocco is now able to stand its ground to European pressures. It is also able to enforce its own red lines [w.r.t. the Sahara issue; my note] against the Europeans much more vigorously than before. Not getting itself involved and not taking sides in regional conflicts between its traditional and/or new found allies pays off very well for Morocco's international standing and evolution towards a thriving economic hub between Africa, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and China.

Check it out, it is worth a read: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/orde...nd-libya-moroccos-foreign-policy-trump-cards/
 
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