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Mauritania
Index
The historic contradictions and competing interests involved
in formulating foreign policy have allowed Mauritania's several
heads of state to justify a monopoly on foreign policy decision
making. As a result, Mauritania's foreign policy, like that of
other developing states, represents at once an extension of the
president's personality and the embodiment of an otherwise
fragile state. Accordingly, Mauritania's foreign policy over the
years avoided ideological posturing in favor of pragmatic
responses to domestic and foreign pressures. That was
particularly true in the mid-1980s when harsh economic realities
and the ongoing conflict in the Western Sahara compelled the Taya
government to strengthen its ties to France; continue its
balancing act between Morocco, Algeria, and the Sahrawi Arab
Democratic Republic (SADR); and solicit support from as many
donors as would come to its aid.
Data as of June 1988
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