Tisser le temps politique au Maroc: Imaginaire de l'État à l'âge néolibéral: by Béatrice Hibou and Mohamed Tozy, Paris, Karthala, 2020, 658 pp., €35 (softcover), ISBN 978-2-8111-2765-7.

In an earlier publication, one of the authors, Béatrice Hibou, published a book "where Max Weber meets Michel Foucault", I The Bureaucratization of the World in the Neoliberal Era. i [1] Her present work, a veritable tapestry "woven" in extensive consultations and writings over fifteen years with distinguished Moroccan scholar, Mohammed Tozy, can be seen as an extension, or localisation, of the earlier study. This lengthy tome is an imaginative post-modern excavation of Moroccan political culture inspired by Michel Foucault and, curiously, Max Weber. There is no succession of a traditional imperial state to a modern nation-state, they argue, challenging the conventional wisdom that empires gave way to nation states in the twentieth century.[3] In their postmodern perspective, they envision the Moroccan state working in what they see as the "presentist" neoliberal era. [Extracted from the article]