Figure 1. Prepared by the author Revista del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos n.º 13 - Año: 2019 - Págs.: 213 a 242 219 Ignacio Fuente Cobo Security policies in the Maghreb from the perspective… the opposite is true of the small powers: they adapt their internal circumstances to the dictates of the international environment16. But these same external conditioning factors also explain why there are analogous results (for example, analogous security policies), in spite of the fact that the moments and circumstances in which they occur may change (for example, different historical periods), which is most interesting when studying the validity over time of the security policies used in the Maghreb. From this perspective provided by the third image, Morocco and Algeria form part of a regional security system –the Maghreb– in which they act as its main interrelated and interdependent elements, so that any action carried out by one affects the other, although this does not prevent the existence of other internal variables that also affect the power relations and security policies of states. This could be the case with terror-ism or the personality of leaders. The regional system of the Maghreb, as well as the international system of which it forms part as a sub-system, could be considered anarchic in the sense that the states 16 SNYDER, J. (1991). Myths of Empire. Domestic Politics and International Ambitions, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, p.318.
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