The Impact of External Intervention on Unity, Stability, and Development in the Maghreb Countries

Abstract

This study argues that Arab and international scholarship addressing the adverse effects of external intervention on unity, stability, and development in the Arab Maghreb countries remains limited, despite the growing significance of this issue in light of ongoing international transformations. These include the erosion of national sovereignty among the region’s states as a result of globalization, the digital and artificial intelligence revolutions, and geopolitical and regional changes. The study adopted a comprehensive approach that traced the historical repercussions of external intervention in the region. It also engaged with contemporary literature that has sought, in one way or another, to justify this phenomenon. The study concluded that external intervention is closely associated with the increasing complexity of issues related to national unity, political stability, and development in the Maghreb countries. This relationship becomes even more complex during periods of crisis, unrest, and revolution. Accordingly, decision-makers in the region must reconsider the activation of Maghreb cooperation and address the obstacles impeding it in order to strengthen the national sovereignty of the region’s states and develop more integrated approaches to development capable of countering external pressures and interventions.