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Rachid El Houdaigui

About

Rachid EL Houdaïgui is professor of International Relations at Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier’s Law Faculty and Senior Fellow at the OCP Policy Center. He is also professor at Royal College of Advanced Military Studies (Kenitra) and professor invited at Cergy-Pontoise University (Paris),Cadix University (Spain) and at La Sagesse University (Beirut, Lebanon).

Mr. EL Houdaïgui is the author of numerous books and articles dealing with International relations and geopolitics: the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Arab world. Also, he is co-director of the Moroccan-Spanish review “Peace and International Security”  and in charge of the Observatory of Mediterranean Studies (Abdelmalek Essaadi University).

 

Publications: 11
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15 December 2021

Le Régime Juridique de L’industrie de Défense au Maroc / The Legal Framework of the Defence Industry in Morocco

Law No. 10-20 on the defense industry and its implementing decree mark a major shift in the process of modernizing the national defense policy. As an extension of its industrial emergence efforts, the new legal device aims at setting up solid foundatio …

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9 August 2021

Le Maghreb en 2020: Quels Constats pour Quelle Perspective? / The Maghreb in 2020: What Observations for what Future?

Of all the African regions, the Maghreb is by far the least integrated, both politically and economically. Yet it combines the elements necessary to create a regional whole; geographical proximity, economic and social interdependence and cognitive homo …

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15 March 2021

Non-lethal Weapons: Towards Clean War

Starting in the nineteen sixties, strategic doctrine gradually saw the advent of so-called “non-lethal” weapons, first as a concept, then as a highly promising area for advanced technologies. Authors of this article provide a synthesis of “non-lethal” …

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5 February 2021

Les Armes Non-létales: Vers la Guerre Propre? / Non-Lethal Weapons: Towards Clean War?

Starting in the nineteen sixties, strategic doctrine gradually saw the advent of so-called “non-lethal” weapons, first as a concept, then as a highly promising area for advanced technologies. Authors of this article provide a synthesis of “non-lethal” …

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4 May 2020

Rétrospective Stratégique de la Menace Biologique à l’aune des Incertitudes post Covid-19 / A Strategic Review of the Biological Threat in the Light of Post-COVID-19 Uncertainties

Rumours about the Covid-19 pandemic, which spread from Central China in midNovember 2019, are fuelling several conspiracy theories. These include, for example, the assumption of a biological attack against the backdrop of a trade war or a leak of the S …

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4 May 2020

A Strategic Review of the Biological Threat in the Light of Post-COVID-19 Uncertainties

Rumours about the Covid-19 pandemic, which spread from Central China in mid November 2019, are fuelling several conspiracy theories. These include, for example, the assumption of a biological attack against the backdrop of a trade war or a leak of the …

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18 August 2017

A Wider Atlantic, Revival of a Regional Power

This article discusses the Wider Atlantic as a re-emerging region of power. Considering the central geo strategic role of the North Euro-Atlantic and the rise of maritime priorities in the political agenda of all coastal states, we demonstrate that the …

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30 June 2017

La défense a l’heure des adaptations necessaires / Defense, Time For Necessary Adjustments.

This document is also available in English : Defense, Time For Necessary Adjustments. The debate on defense is more relevant than ever in an evolving global context that is driven by the constant reconfiguration of geostrategic equilibriums and by the …

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14 June 2017

Defense, Time For Necessary Adjustments

The debate on defense is more relevant than ever in an evolving global context that is driven by the constant reconfiguration of geostrategic equilibriums and by the importance of the impacts of the economic and financial crisis on States’ budgets lead …

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1 June 2016

NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue: What are New Possible Approaches?

NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) is a forum for cooperation launched in 1994 for non-NATO members from Mediterranean countries. Currently, it involves Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia. By enhancing the level of partners …

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16 March 2015

L’Atlantique élargi, Renaissance d’une Aire de Puissance / A Wider Atlantic, Revival of a Regional Power

This article discusses the Wider Atlantic as a re-emerging region of power. Considering the central geostrategic role of the North Euro-Atlantic and the rise of maritime priorities in the political agenda of all coastal states, we demonstrate that the …

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