Morocco

Abstract

Morocco was established as a result of a struggle against the French and Spanish Protectorates, that eventually brought the national independence to its state and people in 1956. Accordingly, the Moroccan interaction with the contemporary world goes back to that year, when Morocco became a nation-state for the very first time in its history. Among the critical events that structure this interaction are the problems in the Western Sahara region that has been making Moroccan political elites superiorize the Moroccanity component of the postcolonial Moroccan national identity, and economic relations with Turkey The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the general components of Moroccan state, such as its demography, economy and administration, to analyse the Moroccan economic and sociocultural interaction with its neighborhood and Turkey, and lastly to make some policy suggestions to advance the country's relations with Turkey. © 2018, IGI Global. All rights reserved.