The unchanging politics of North Africa [Ressource électronique]

The article discusses the unchanging reality of politics, power and control in the Maghreb region, North Africa, comprised by the countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania. The region remains to be dominated by the state authority at the expense of individual rights and civil liberties. One main cause of this political stagnation is the lack of a truly institutional separation of powers that could check and balance the centralized authorities in each state. But if the region is serious in legitimizing their rules and institutionalizing their polities, they must first seek for genuine democracy, rule of law and separation of powers.