The Moroccan regime faces persistent internal and external challenges: periodic unrest driven by corruption and socioeconomic concerns, low Maghreb regional and global integration hindering economic development, and control over Western Sahara that is entrenched but not normalised or internationally recognised. Against this backdrop, King Mohamed VI launched the ‘advanced regionalisation’ programme in 2010. Building on earlier regional deconcentration measures, it represented Morocco’s first foray into decentralisation to local elected authorities. It became a key component of the constitutional reform process which the King launched in 2011 in response to the country’s 20 February protest movement (M20). Internationally, it signalled that Morocco remained committed to a political resolution in Western Sahara. By formulating autonomy for the ‘Saharan Provinces’ within frameworks of symmetrical autonomy and rural development, it did so without compromising the King’s constitutionally-enshrined status as guarantor of Morocco’s territorial integrity ‘within its authentic borders’, a foundation of the monarchy’s legitimacy. Advanced regionalisation significantly enhanced the democratic legitimacy and governance of regional councils and modestly increased their powers and resources. Nevertheless, it failed to establish meaningful subsidiarity. It increased central government review of the regional councils’ decisions without reducing a priori supervision (tutelle). Consequently, it does not meaningfully address the demands of the M20 and the most recent Rif protest movement, which spring from disaffection with this ruling elite (the makhzen). And by doubling down on Morocco’s unitary post-colonial national identity, advanced regionalisation goes no way toward normalising Moroccan rule over Western Sahara or incorporating Sahrawis into the Moroccan body politic. The literature has approached advanced regionalisation from a governance perspective. This chapter examines it principally through a conflict management lens, with particular focus paid to its implications for the fate of Western Sahara. Seen through this lens, advanced regionalisation underpins a two-pronged strategy by the regime: a hardening external position on Western Sahara coupled with internal efforts to minoritise and folklorise Sahrawi identity. The goal of this strategy is to disassociate the question of Western Sahara from the decolonisation/self-determination paradigm and reframe it as a matter of Sahrawi minority rights and cultural preservation. However, this strategy has the potential to shift the dynamics of the Sahrawi nationalist movement and the struggle for Western Sahara.