Such strategies of control have always existed within the Moroccan state’s repertoire of soft authoritarianism, but from the 1990s until the Arab Spring the state preferred to utilize carrots rather than sticks. Today, while the region is intently focused upon the threat of terrorism and ISIS, the state is dismantling what it sees as the infrastructure of social resistance – a strategy of divide-and-conquer. With the threat of repression lurking in the background, the state has sought to buy social peace by negotiating benefits for distinctive social movements. For instance, it delivered progressive laws for feminists, parliamentary visibility for Islamists and wage increases for workers.