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North Africa: Grappling with Demography (WP) WP 56/2004 - 4/11/2004 Rickard Sandell This paper discusses the general nature of current demographic trends. The purpose is to offer a more nuanced view of part of the world''''s population development. In particular, the author shows that the demographic transition, while similar in developed and developing countries, gives rise to an emerging demographic clevage between developed and developing countries. The focus of this paper is on demographic changes in the Mediterranean region. Rickard Sandell contrasts demographic developments on both the southern and northern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
The international dimension of the conflict over the Western Sahara and its repercussions for a Moroccan alternative WP16-2004 - 4.5.2004 (Translation from Spanish) Ahmed Boukhari At present the issue of the Western Sahara is one of the matters facing the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations, which must decide on the final leg of the currently blocked peace process. Observers agree that continuation of the conflict prolongs the injustice being suffered by the people of this territory, seriously undermines peace and security in the Maghreb and, consequently, has deep repercussions on the relations between the Maghreb and its European neighbours
The Algerian Armed Forces: National and International Challenges (WP) WP 8/2004 - 1/04/2004 (Translated from Spanish) Carlos Echeverría Jesús Various changes, both within and outside Algeria, suggest a future of profound transformation in the country's Armed Forces, affecting their contribution to peace-keeping missions, civil-military relations, the debate on compulsory national service, the generation change in their upper echelons and the rationalization of the debate on their role in the democratization process
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