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Books by Yousra Abourabi
BRILL, 2020
Le Royaume ambitionne d’être reconnu comme une puissance africaine émergente dans son identité c... more Le Royaume ambitionne d’être reconnu comme une puissance africaine émergente dans son identité comme dans son espace de projection. Afin de satisfaire ces ambitions, l’appareil diplomatique se développe et se modernise, tandis qu’une identité de rôle singulière émerge autour de la notion de « juste milieu ». Cette étude présente, sur le plan empirique, les conditions de l’élaboration et de la conduite de cette politique africaine, et analyse, sur le plan théorique, l’évolution de l’identité de rôle marocaine à l'échelle internationale.
De Boeck, 2019
Un ouvrage destiné à un large public. 5 chapitres : Histoire & géographie, Peuple & Société, Pouv... more Un ouvrage destiné à un large public.
5 chapitres : Histoire & géographie, Peuple & Société, Pouvoir & Politique, Économie & Développement, Culture & Art
Papers by Yousra Abourabi
ECOSOCC, 2023
This report critically examines Africa’s evolving role in global climate governance, with a focus... more This report critically examines Africa’s evolving role in global climate governance, with a focus on its strategic positioning leading up to COP28. It contextualizes Africa’s historical climate diplomacy, emphasizing the shift from fragmented national negotiations to a unified continental stance under the African Union. The study highlights key challenges, including climate vulnerability, adaptation financing gaps, and the development-decarbonization dilemma. Analyzing outcomes from COP27, the report assesses Africa’s progress in climate finance, adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage negotiations. Furthermore, it outlines Africa’s just transition priorities, advocating for equitable energy transitions and sustainable development pathways. The roadmap to COP28 is framed within Africa’s broader climate agenda, stressing the necessity of enhanced financial commitments, strengthened multilateral cooperation, and a just transition framework that aligns climate resilience with economic growth. This report contributes to the discourse on African climate agency, positioning the continent as a proactive actor in shaping global climate policy.
Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2020
Ce reportage examine le développement de l'agroécologie au Maroc comme alternative durable à l'ag... more Ce reportage examine le développement de l'agroécologie au Maroc comme alternative durable à l'agriculture conventionnelle. Il met en évidence le rôle du Réseau des Initiatives Agroécologiques au Maroc (RIAM) et des acteurs institutionnels dans la structuration du secteur, notamment par la promotion d’un label participatif et de circuits de commercialisation solidaires. L’étude souligne les défis liés à la reconnaissance institutionnelle, à l’accès aux semences paysannes et au soutien financier, tout en plaidant pour un « mix agricole », conciliant durabilité environnementale et viabilité économique.
International Development Policy, 2022
As part of its new African integration policy, implemented under the reign of Mohammed vi, Morocc... more As part of its new African integration policy, implemented under the reign of
Mohammed vi, Morocco has developed a new migration policy. Traditionally, the Moroccan approach to migration was focused on the management of the Moroccan diaspora. Today, despite the low percentage of African migrants compared to European migrants in Morocco, special attention is paid to the regularisation of migrants coming from the South. The Kingdom of Morocco has therefore become an African migratory crossroads, not only for transit migration but also for incoming migration. While the European Union is trying to externalise the control of its borders to Maghreb countries, Morocco is striving to spread a positive and desecuritising discourse on migration to differentiate itself from Europe. This desire for differentiation is not an easy path, as this article demonstrates. It is motivated by the Moroccan will to affirm the African dimension of its identity and no longer be considered as a purely Arab- Muslim country looking to the Mediterranean region. To this end, Morocco has committed itself, as a ‘champion of migration’ within the African Union (AU, n.d.), to the dissemination of its own migration model over the continent and to the defence of an African vision of migration centred on continental mobility, promoting migration as a path to development and combating preconceived ideas about migration as a security problem. Overall, Morocco’s foreign policy in Africa has further encouraged sub- Saharan migration, which in turn has had many positive effects. In addition to the cosmopolitanisation of several Moroccan cities, the new migration policy seems to illustrate a boost in public policies and a willingness to overcome European normative transfers through diplomatic negotiation.
Revue Défense, 2019
Les mouvements migratoires africains, de plus en plus croissants, sont majoritairement intra-cont... more Les mouvements migratoires africains, de plus en plus croissants, sont majoritairement intra-continentaux, et bien souvent régionaux. C’est pour cette raison que l’Union africaine, en coordination avec les organisations régionales, ont adopté une feuille de route ainsi qu’un grand nombre de politiques et de cadres juridiques et normatifs en la matière depuis le début des années 2000. Cependant le tout nouveau Cadre de politique mi-gratoire pour l’Afrique révisé et plan d’action 2018-2030 (MPFA) annonce un changement de paradigme impor-tant : le passage d’une sécuritisation de la question migratoire à une progressive désécuritisation de celle-ci.
in Gephart Werner (ed), In the Realm of Corona Normativities, Kate Hamburger Center for Advanced Studies, Bonn, 2020
https://www.klostermann.de/In-the-Realm-of-Corona-Normativities The link between health and... more https://www.klostermann.de/In-the-Realm-of-Corona-Normativities
The link between health and the environment remains difficult to measure, as the latter is in most cases an indirect cause that requires not only in-depth research, but also strong advocacy in the face of powerful and well-armed communities of actors. The Covid-19 crisis has, however, more than other epidemics, reinforced global environmental awareness.
Revue Internationale des Francophonies, 2019
Morocco faces the linguistic challenges of building its identity as a state. For a long time, Ara... more Morocco faces the linguistic challenges of building its identity as a state. For a long time, Arabic was favoured as a mean of resisting the norms of the former colonizers and value the Muslim religion and the history of successive Moroccan empires. French was never abandoned as a second administrative language, but it was removed from primary and secondary education after independence. For the past fifteen years or so, with the choice of linguistic openness announced by King Mohammed VI and illustrated in particular by an official enhancement of the Amazigh language, the debate on the place of French in education and more generally as one of the national languages has been reopened. The choice of classical Arabic, French or dialects as languages of instruction is currently the subject of a major reform project that may take several years. These ideological preferences emanate from the various parties but are mainly determined by new foreign policy orientations. Resolutely oriented towards Africa, Morocco aims to be recognized as a continental power. Moroccan diplomacy has established close relations with French-speaking countries in the first place, by strengthening economic but also migratory exchanges. A large African diaspora of different origins has migrated to the Kingdom, particularly to pursue studies in French. On the other hand, both the public and private sectors must enhance the language skills of their employees, particularly in French, in order to support this national drive towards Africa. Thus, university training and expertise diplomacy have become significant levers within this diplomacy and contribute in a reflexive way to shaping Morocco's identity, which aims to be at the crossroads of cultures and civilizations. Described in this article as "Golden mean", Morocco's role identity, in the sense given by the constructivist theory of international relations, is thus constructed in the context of the Kingdom's African policy. The French-speaking dimension of Moroccan foreign policy is first of all based on a linguistic stake , before being institutional (Francophonie) or political (Francophilia).
Oxford University Press, 2019
La nouvelle politique migratoire marocaine, 2017
Chapitre dans Alioua M., Ferrié J.-N., Reifeld H.(dir) La nouvelle politique migratoire marocaine... more Chapitre dans Alioua M., Ferrié J.-N., Reifeld H.(dir) La nouvelle politique migratoire marocaine, Publications de la Fondation Konrad Adenauer, 2017 pp. 123-143
in ABIDI H., Monde Arabe entre transition et implosion, Paris, Ed. Erick Bonnier, 2015
La découverte du pétrole au large des Iles Canaries cristallise les tensions concernant les diffé... more La découverte du pétrole au large des Iles Canaries cristallise les tensions concernant les différends territoriaux entre l’Espagne et le Maroc. La délimitation des eaux territoriales qui séparent le Maroc des Iles Canaries, la définition du statut des îlots situés en mer méditerranée, ainsi que le sort des enclaves de Ceuta et Melilla, sont des sujets de divergenceappréhendés comme des intérêts vitaux par les deux pays. Cependant,les risques de conflits armés sont limités pardes intérêts partagés entre les deux
pays, ce qui pousse le Maroc à rechercher une solution juridique internationale pour régler le différend notamment en
délimitant son plateau continental d’ici 2017.
La France qui soutient le Maroc sur le plan militaire et technique
mais qui est aussi un allié de l’Espagne au sein de l’OTAN,
souhaite que le différend soit réglé pacifiquement par les instances internationale.
Talks by Yousra Abourabi
Le Point Afrique, 2017
Entretien conduit par Viviane Forson
Centre International pour la Paix et les Droits de l’Homme, 2017
Entretien conduit by Sonia Rodriguez
Book Reviews by Yousra Abourabi
Revue Française de Science Politique, 2017
Il s'agit d'un compte rendu de lecture de l'ouvrage de Daniel Bach, Regionalism in Africa, Geneal... more Il s'agit d'un compte rendu de lecture de l'ouvrage de Daniel Bach, Regionalism in Africa, Genealogies, Institutions and Trans-State Networks, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016
BRILL, 2020
Le Royaume ambitionne d’être reconnu comme une puissance africaine émergente dans son identité c... more Le Royaume ambitionne d’être reconnu comme une puissance africaine émergente dans son identité comme dans son espace de projection. Afin de satisfaire ces ambitions, l’appareil diplomatique se développe et se modernise, tandis qu’une identité de rôle singulière émerge autour de la notion de « juste milieu ». Cette étude présente, sur le plan empirique, les conditions de l’élaboration et de la conduite de cette politique africaine, et analyse, sur le plan théorique, l’évolution de l’identité de rôle marocaine à l'échelle internationale.
De Boeck, 2019
Un ouvrage destiné à un large public. 5 chapitres : Histoire & géographie, Peuple & Société, Pouv... more Un ouvrage destiné à un large public.
5 chapitres : Histoire & géographie, Peuple & Société, Pouvoir & Politique, Économie & Développement, Culture & Art
ECOSOCC, 2023
This report critically examines Africa’s evolving role in global climate governance, with a focus... more This report critically examines Africa’s evolving role in global climate governance, with a focus on its strategic positioning leading up to COP28. It contextualizes Africa’s historical climate diplomacy, emphasizing the shift from fragmented national negotiations to a unified continental stance under the African Union. The study highlights key challenges, including climate vulnerability, adaptation financing gaps, and the development-decarbonization dilemma. Analyzing outcomes from COP27, the report assesses Africa’s progress in climate finance, adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage negotiations. Furthermore, it outlines Africa’s just transition priorities, advocating for equitable energy transitions and sustainable development pathways. The roadmap to COP28 is framed within Africa’s broader climate agenda, stressing the necessity of enhanced financial commitments, strengthened multilateral cooperation, and a just transition framework that aligns climate resilience with economic growth. This report contributes to the discourse on African climate agency, positioning the continent as a proactive actor in shaping global climate policy.
Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2020
Ce reportage examine le développement de l'agroécologie au Maroc comme alternative durable à l'ag... more Ce reportage examine le développement de l'agroécologie au Maroc comme alternative durable à l'agriculture conventionnelle. Il met en évidence le rôle du Réseau des Initiatives Agroécologiques au Maroc (RIAM) et des acteurs institutionnels dans la structuration du secteur, notamment par la promotion d’un label participatif et de circuits de commercialisation solidaires. L’étude souligne les défis liés à la reconnaissance institutionnelle, à l’accès aux semences paysannes et au soutien financier, tout en plaidant pour un « mix agricole », conciliant durabilité environnementale et viabilité économique.
International Development Policy, 2022
As part of its new African integration policy, implemented under the reign of Mohammed vi, Morocc... more As part of its new African integration policy, implemented under the reign of
Mohammed vi, Morocco has developed a new migration policy. Traditionally, the Moroccan approach to migration was focused on the management of the Moroccan diaspora. Today, despite the low percentage of African migrants compared to European migrants in Morocco, special attention is paid to the regularisation of migrants coming from the South. The Kingdom of Morocco has therefore become an African migratory crossroads, not only for transit migration but also for incoming migration. While the European Union is trying to externalise the control of its borders to Maghreb countries, Morocco is striving to spread a positive and desecuritising discourse on migration to differentiate itself from Europe. This desire for differentiation is not an easy path, as this article demonstrates. It is motivated by the Moroccan will to affirm the African dimension of its identity and no longer be considered as a purely Arab- Muslim country looking to the Mediterranean region. To this end, Morocco has committed itself, as a ‘champion of migration’ within the African Union (AU, n.d.), to the dissemination of its own migration model over the continent and to the defence of an African vision of migration centred on continental mobility, promoting migration as a path to development and combating preconceived ideas about migration as a security problem. Overall, Morocco’s foreign policy in Africa has further encouraged sub- Saharan migration, which in turn has had many positive effects. In addition to the cosmopolitanisation of several Moroccan cities, the new migration policy seems to illustrate a boost in public policies and a willingness to overcome European normative transfers through diplomatic negotiation.
Revue Défense, 2019
Les mouvements migratoires africains, de plus en plus croissants, sont majoritairement intra-cont... more Les mouvements migratoires africains, de plus en plus croissants, sont majoritairement intra-continentaux, et bien souvent régionaux. C’est pour cette raison que l’Union africaine, en coordination avec les organisations régionales, ont adopté une feuille de route ainsi qu’un grand nombre de politiques et de cadres juridiques et normatifs en la matière depuis le début des années 2000. Cependant le tout nouveau Cadre de politique mi-gratoire pour l’Afrique révisé et plan d’action 2018-2030 (MPFA) annonce un changement de paradigme impor-tant : le passage d’une sécuritisation de la question migratoire à une progressive désécuritisation de celle-ci.
in Gephart Werner (ed), In the Realm of Corona Normativities, Kate Hamburger Center for Advanced Studies, Bonn, 2020
https://www.klostermann.de/In-the-Realm-of-Corona-Normativities The link between health and... more https://www.klostermann.de/In-the-Realm-of-Corona-Normativities
The link between health and the environment remains difficult to measure, as the latter is in most cases an indirect cause that requires not only in-depth research, but also strong advocacy in the face of powerful and well-armed communities of actors. The Covid-19 crisis has, however, more than other epidemics, reinforced global environmental awareness.
Revue Internationale des Francophonies, 2019
Morocco faces the linguistic challenges of building its identity as a state. For a long time, Ara... more Morocco faces the linguistic challenges of building its identity as a state. For a long time, Arabic was favoured as a mean of resisting the norms of the former colonizers and value the Muslim religion and the history of successive Moroccan empires. French was never abandoned as a second administrative language, but it was removed from primary and secondary education after independence. For the past fifteen years or so, with the choice of linguistic openness announced by King Mohammed VI and illustrated in particular by an official enhancement of the Amazigh language, the debate on the place of French in education and more generally as one of the national languages has been reopened. The choice of classical Arabic, French or dialects as languages of instruction is currently the subject of a major reform project that may take several years. These ideological preferences emanate from the various parties but are mainly determined by new foreign policy orientations. Resolutely oriented towards Africa, Morocco aims to be recognized as a continental power. Moroccan diplomacy has established close relations with French-speaking countries in the first place, by strengthening economic but also migratory exchanges. A large African diaspora of different origins has migrated to the Kingdom, particularly to pursue studies in French. On the other hand, both the public and private sectors must enhance the language skills of their employees, particularly in French, in order to support this national drive towards Africa. Thus, university training and expertise diplomacy have become significant levers within this diplomacy and contribute in a reflexive way to shaping Morocco's identity, which aims to be at the crossroads of cultures and civilizations. Described in this article as "Golden mean", Morocco's role identity, in the sense given by the constructivist theory of international relations, is thus constructed in the context of the Kingdom's African policy. The French-speaking dimension of Moroccan foreign policy is first of all based on a linguistic stake , before being institutional (Francophonie) or political (Francophilia).
Oxford University Press, 2019
La nouvelle politique migratoire marocaine, 2017
Chapitre dans Alioua M., Ferrié J.-N., Reifeld H.(dir) La nouvelle politique migratoire marocaine... more Chapitre dans Alioua M., Ferrié J.-N., Reifeld H.(dir) La nouvelle politique migratoire marocaine, Publications de la Fondation Konrad Adenauer, 2017 pp. 123-143
in ABIDI H., Monde Arabe entre transition et implosion, Paris, Ed. Erick Bonnier, 2015
La découverte du pétrole au large des Iles Canaries cristallise les tensions concernant les diffé... more La découverte du pétrole au large des Iles Canaries cristallise les tensions concernant les différends territoriaux entre l’Espagne et le Maroc. La délimitation des eaux territoriales qui séparent le Maroc des Iles Canaries, la définition du statut des îlots situés en mer méditerranée, ainsi que le sort des enclaves de Ceuta et Melilla, sont des sujets de divergenceappréhendés comme des intérêts vitaux par les deux pays. Cependant,les risques de conflits armés sont limités pardes intérêts partagés entre les deux
pays, ce qui pousse le Maroc à rechercher une solution juridique internationale pour régler le différend notamment en
délimitant son plateau continental d’ici 2017.
La France qui soutient le Maroc sur le plan militaire et technique
mais qui est aussi un allié de l’Espagne au sein de l’OTAN,
souhaite que le différend soit réglé pacifiquement par les instances internationale.
Le Point Afrique, 2017
Entretien conduit par Viviane Forson
Centre International pour la Paix et les Droits de l’Homme, 2017
Entretien conduit by Sonia Rodriguez
Revue Française de Science Politique, 2017
Il s'agit d'un compte rendu de lecture de l'ouvrage de Daniel Bach, Regionalism in Africa, Geneal... more Il s'agit d'un compte rendu de lecture de l'ouvrage de Daniel Bach, Regionalism in Africa, Genealogies, Institutions and Trans-State Networks, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016