Extractivism in the Maghreb: Class, State and Geopolitics (Global Challenges in Political Economy)

Centered on Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, this book interrogates the complex entanglements between extractivism, state power, class formation, and geopolitical reorientation in North Africa.While the global energy transition promises economic diversification and sustainable development, the international contributors to this volume show how “green extractivism” often reproduces older structures of dependency and inequality, and therefore authoritarianism consolidates. Rather than fostering transformation, rent economies adapt, stabilize, and reconfigure themselves through new sources of rent and new modes of social control.The book makes three core contributions. First, it offers a historically grounded and theoretically informed understanding of rent economies in the Maghreb, tracing how colonial legacies of resource extraction evolved into postcolonial patterns of rentier governance.Second, it introduces a class-analytical perspective to debates on extractivism, arguing that rent no