Introduction: States and Political Territories, The Debate over Decentralization

Abstract

The challenge of this dossier has been to understand how, in the shifting context of the “Arab Springs” and with strong calls for the reorganization of political powers and regimes, the leaders and executives of central and local administrations have responded to the issue of state decentralization in the Maghreb. More specifically, the questions we propose to examine refer to the effects of popular involvement in the production of new territorial orders. This question concerns as much the mo...