Penn State International Law Review Volume 10 Article 4 Number 2 Dickinson Journal of International Law 1-1-1992 The Arab Maghreb Union: Possibilities of Maghrebine Political and Economic Unity, and Enhanced Trade in the World Community Robert W. McKeon Jr. Follow this and additional works at: http://elibrary.law.psu.edu/psilr Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation McKeon, Robert W. Jr. (1992) "The Arab Maghreb Union: Possibilities of Maghrebine Political and Economic Unity, and Enhanced Trade in the World Community," Penn State International Law Review: Vol. 10: No. 2, Article 4. Available at: http://elibrary.law.psu.edu/psilr/vol10/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Penn State Law eLibrary. It has been accepted for inclusion in Penn State International Law Review by an authorized administrator of Penn State Law eLibrary. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Arab Maghreb Union: Possibilities of Maghrebine Political and Economic Unity, and Enhanced Trade in the World Community Robert W. McKeon, Jr.* I. Introduction On February 17, 1989, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia signed the Treaty to Constitute the Union of the Arab Maghreb (Treaty) in Marrakesh, Morocco.' The Arab Maghreb Union (Union) now comprises sixty-two million people within a re- * J.D. Case Western Reserve University, 1991; M.A. Middlebury College, 1988; A.B. College of the Holy Cross, 1987. 1. The Treaty Creating the Union of the Arab Maghreb was supplied by the United States Department of State and translated from the original in Arabic [hereinafter AMU Treaty].