Moroccan Foreign Policy Discourse in Geo-historical Perspective

Abstract

Morocco, through its Head of State, its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other technical institutions, is committed to an African policy that seemed to take the side of the common goods, in the aftermath of the pandemic. Explaining the centrality of speech in Moroccan foreign policy, and in particular to what extent it is both political and technical, requires a detour to the importance of speech and its circulation in the geo-historic accretion of the modern nation-state. This article proposes to show how the technocratic public discourse in the Arab area, especially in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, was grafted to the idiosyncrasy of the Moroccan system as it developed, especially after Independence. Examples of how actions closely relate to words in the African Commons policy of Morocco are given at the end of the article. This combination of actions and words is a challenge that Morocco will have to face for its own people and for the people of the continent – in essence, it is a challenge that can be put to good use.