الأوبئة والدولة والمجتمع في تاريخ المغرب

رأي | الموساوي العجلاوي

الهزات التي تطرأ بين الحين والآخر في أي مجتمع، تقاس بها متانة مؤسسات الدولة والمجتمع على السواء في مواجهة الأزمات. وإذا عرفت مؤسسات الدولة استمرارية في تاريخ المغرب، فإن تفاعل المجتمع المغربي مع ظاهرة الأوبئة قد اختلف بمقدار اختلاف الظروف السياسية، من حيث تقاطع الوباء مع ضعف السلطة المركزية أو قوتها ... المزيد

La Stratégie Du Maroc Face Au Covid-19

Policy paper | Abdelaaziz Ait Ali , Abdelhak Bassou , M’hammed Dryef , Karim El Aynaoui , Rachid El Houdaigui , Youssef El Jai , Faiçal Hossaini , Larabi Jaidi , Mohamed Loulichki , El Mostafa Rezrazi , Abdallah Saaf

Face à la pandémie du COVID-19, un plan d’action a été établi autour de trois axes : santé, économie et ordre social. Dans chacun de ces champs, le concours des institutions publiques, du secteur privé et des membres de la société civile a permis jusque-là de limiter les dégâts et d’avoir un certain contrôle sur la pandémie ... Read more

L’Etat au Révélateur de la COVID-19

Policy paper | A. Bassou , A. Boucetta , K. Chegraoui , N. Chekrouni , Y. Drissi Daoudi , M. Dryef , K. El Aynaoui , R. El Houdaigui , A. El Ouassif , L. Jaidi , M. Loulichki , M. Rezrazi , A. Saaf

La crise de la COVID-19 aura été tant un point de départ que le révélateur de profonds bouleversements économiques, sociaux, et humains au Maroc et dans le reste du monde. Cette pandémie aura également été à l’origine d’un vent d’incertitude pour les populations, entraînant ainsi de fortes répercussions sur la santé publique, la quiétude de l’humain et sa sécurité. ... Read more

Impact of COVID-19 on Kenya's Economic Development

Opinion | Sahil S.R. Shah

As with the rest of the World, the impact of COVID-19 in Kenya has stretched beyond the sphere of healthcare and the spread of the actual virus, as economic development outcomes are expected to be seriously affected by the disruption caused both globally and locally.

In fact, one of the working hypotheses of the impact of COVID-19 on African nations is that the substantive impact of the virus on livelihoods will occur less from health-related issues ... Read more

The Impact of Coronavirus on the Global Economy

Policy brief | Otaviano Canuto

COVID-19 brought the global economy to a sudden stop, causing shocks to supply and demand. Starting in January 2020, country after country suffered outbreaks of the new coronavirus, with each facing epidemiological shocks that led to economic and financial shocks as a consequence. How quickly and to what extent will national economies recover after the pandemic has passed? ... Read more

L’autonomisation économique des femmes marocaines au temps de la Covid-19 et d’avant : comprendre pour agir

Research Paper | Aomar Ibourk , Karim El Aynaoui , Tayeb Ghazi

La femme représente la moitié de la société. Côte à côte avec l’homme, elle a toujours contribué au développement des sociétés lorsque les facteurs de conversion lui ont permis de mettre à l’oeuvre ses potentialités pour parler simple. Aujourd’hui, cette catégorie de la société marocaine, et mondiale, subit de manière disproportionnée les répercussions de la crise de la Covid-19, sur plus d’un aspect de la vie en société.... Read more

The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism

Opinion | Paola Maniga

Tourism is considered one of the hardest hits by the COVID-19 outbreak. The sector is experiencing a rapid and sharp drop in demand and a surge in job losses at global level, putting many SMEs at risk. Despite tourism’s proven resilience in responses to other crisis, the depth and breadth of the current pandemic will likely have a longer lasting effect on international tourism compared to other industries, more likely to recover once major restrictions will be lifted. This is also due to the potential long-term changes in behaviors with people likely to become ... Read more

Rationalising Fear: The Novel Coronavirus in Times of Globalization

Opinion | Salma Daoudi

Epidemics are hardly a novelty. They have been shaping, mapping, and fundamentally altering human history from time immemorial. Exposing national vulnerabilities and feeding off poverty and insecurity, diseases have consistently threatened human and homeland security.

Paradoxically, while globalization has helped concentrate global scientific efforts and disseminate ever more rapidly technologies and knowledge ... Read more

L'impact de la Covid-19 sur les relations internationales

Opinion | Moulay Omar Mharzi

À l’heure actuelle, l’humanité baigne dans une crise profonde dont la portée est universelle. Le constat est sans appel : la pandémie Covid-19 a enclenché une panique immense impliquant l’ordre social, les structures économiques et politiques, pour ne citer que ces aspects. S’agissant du volet politique, il est évident que les incidences de cette pandémie traversent aisément les frontières. En ce sens, une question se pose immanquablement : quel est l’impact de la crise sanitaire sur l’avenir des relations internationales ?.... Read more

Genetically Modified Organisms: Promising or Problematic for Food Security? A Review of Major Developments in Selected Industrialized Countries - Part I

Policy brief | Isabelle Tsakok , Fatima Ezzahra Mengoub

Building on decades of biochemistry research, bioengineers have successfully transferred genes across species to produce living organisms (plants and animals, including fish) with desired traits. Unlike traditional breeding practiced over 10,000 years, this process takes years not centuries from initial conception to field testing and commercialization ... Read more

Intelligence artificielle et cyber-colonisation : implications sur l’Afrique

Policy paper | Saad Badaoui , Redouan Najah

Les technologies liées à l’Intelligence artificielle ont un pouvoir influent et transformateur de plus en plus ressenti par les populations africaines et constituent, de ce fait, un levier de développement important. Cependant, cet écosystème numérique, même porteur de promesses et d’opportunités, n’est pas sans risques pour le continent africain qui voit son cyberespace, chaque jour un peu plus, exploité par des compagnies étrangères. Dans cette étude, nous allons essayer d’analyser et d’expliquer la dépendance technologique de l’Afrique subtilement imposée ... Read more

Joe Biden’s climate commitments? What impact can we expect?

Policy brief | Dominique Bocquet

US President-elect Joe Biden made climate change a priority in his election campaign. Contrary to his predecessor, he announced, among other things, the return to the Paris Accord, a vast infrastructure program for renewable energy and climate transition, and a national target of Zero emissions by 2050 (2035 for power production). With his election, the climate debate is changing. It is true that no other country had followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris Accord. But the US is the world’s second largest CO2 emitter (after China) and still plays a crucial economic and political role.... Read more

Manchukuo and the Self-Declared SADR International Law of Recognition and the Sahara Issue

Policy paper | Shoji Matsumoto

The self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic’s (SADR) declaration on the Guerguerat crisis, in November 2020, to terminate the 1991 ceasefire agreement and go to war with Morocco raises a problem regarding the legality of third States granting State recognition to the self-declared SADR. International law imposes an obligation on third States to not grant ‘premature recognition.’ Moreover, premature recognition would constitute illegal intervention in the internal affairs of the parent State..... Read more

إفريقيا في خضم الانتخابات الرئاسية

عرفت القارة الإفريقية تنظيم عدد من الانتخابات الرئاسية خلال السنة الفارطة كما تم تأجيل عدد منها كذلك لهاته السنة، ويأتي ذلك وسط تداعيات جائحة كورونا التي ضربت معظم الدول الأفريقية. من بين مراحل العملية الانتخابية، هناك مرحلة أساسية وهي تعبئة الموارد. واجهت الدول الأفريقية دائمًا صعوبات في تعبئة الموارد لإجراء الانتخابات في الظروف المثلى. وبسبب جائحة كوفيد19، تمت إعادة تأهيل للمزيد

Global Terrorism: A Focus on the Sahel Region

The webinar is part of a series to discuss the findings of the Global Terrorism Index 2020 and take a look at recent trends in the Sahel region. The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) is an annual report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP). Now on its 8th edition, the report provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism. It analyses a number of vital aspects of terrorism such as the socio-economic conditions under which it occurs, how terrorism changes over time, the geopolitical drivers and ideological aims of terrorist groups and the strategies used by terrorists.