Morocco: Old Land, New Nation

This book was written to acquaint persons seriously interested in newly independent countries with one of the more perplexing members of this emerging "third world." A multi-party monarchy in an age and area of one-party republics, ruled in an authoritarian yet often haphazard manner by a government that has tended to be cautious at home but aggressive abroad, Morocco is a bundle of apparent paradoxes that defies many of the stereotypes usually applied to "developing" nations. To make the reader aware of the features peculiar to Morocco, to recreate the atmosphere that spawned them, and to expound the existing political system, we have approached the subject both descriptively and analytically. To facilitate comparison with, and perhaps some comprehension of, other "new" countries, moreover, we have tried wherever feasible to cite problems and cause-effect relationships that, mutatis mutandis, could occur elsewhere.