The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XXIV, North Africa.
This volume is part of a subseries of volumes of the Foreign Relations series that documents the foreign policy decision making of the administration of President Ronald Reagan. The volume details the Reagan administration’s overall approach to North Africa, its conception of the region as it related to broader U.S. geopolitical goals, and its attempts to address the wide, often interrelated, range of political, economic, and strategic challenges posed to U.S. interests in the area. The volume also documents the course of U.S. bilateral relations with Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, the Reagan administration’s bilateral and multilateral efforts to end the conflict between the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Río de Oro (POLISARIO) and Morocco in the Western Sahara. It also documents U.S. responses to attempts by Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia to achieve Maghreb unity and contend with the challenge posed by Libyan leader Mu’ammar Qadhafi, including brief interludes of “union” with Libya.
This volume was compiled and edited by Chris Tudda. The volume and this press release are available on the Office of the Historian website at http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1981-88v24.