Algeria since 1989: Between Terror and DemocracyAlgeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. The first Muslim nation to attempt the transition from an authoritarian system to democratic pluralism, this North African country became a test case for reform in Africa, the Arab world and beyond. Yet when the country looked certain to become the world's first elected Islamic republic, there was a military coup and the democratic process was brought sharply to a halt. Islamists declared jihad on the state and hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in the ensuing decade of state repression. Le Sueur shows that Algeria is at the very heart of contemporary debates about Islam and secular democracy, arguing that the stability of Algeria is crucial for the security of the wider Middle East. Algeria Since 1989 is a lively and essential examination of how the fate of one country is entwined with much greater global issues. |
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Ali Belhadj (1956–): Born in Tunisia, he began his career as a high school teacher and the imam of the Al-Sunna Mosque in Algiers's Bab el-Oued district. Representing the Salafist wing of the FIS, he and the more moderate Abassi Madani ...
Ali Belhadj (1956–): Born in Tunisia, he began his career as a high school teacher and the imam of the Al-Sunna Mosque in Algiers's Bab el-Oued district. Representing the Salafist wing of the FIS, he and the more moderate Abassi Madani ...
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The political liberalization that began with spirited debate and great optimism in 1988 ended suddenly for Algeria in January 1992 in the same way that Hungary's democratic reforms ended in the streets of Budapest in 1956, ...
The political liberalization that began with spirited debate and great optimism in 1988 ended suddenly for Algeria in January 1992 in the same way that Hungary's democratic reforms ended in the streets of Budapest in 1956, ...
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... or the “the near enemy,” as Fawza A. Gerges has put it.2 The terror This war against “the near enemy” began in earnest in 1992 with the targeting of Algerian state security personnel, but the definition of the enemy changed quickly.
... or the “the near enemy,” as Fawza A. Gerges has put it.2 The terror This war against “the near enemy” began in earnest in 1992 with the targeting of Algerian state security personnel, but the definition of the enemy changed quickly.
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By 1993, a new kind of cultural war began in earnest, claiming the lives of hundreds of prominent intellectuals and forcing tens of thousands of Algeria's intelligentsia into exile throughout France, Europe, and North America.
By 1993, a new kind of cultural war began in earnest, claiming the lives of hundreds of prominent intellectuals and forcing tens of thousands of Algeria's intelligentsia into exile throughout France, Europe, and North America.
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National reconciliation As Algeria continued to enact important economic liberalization and to work with foreign energy companies to capitalize on the country's nature-given resources, toward the late 1990s it finally began to move away ...
National reconciliation As Algeria continued to enact important economic liberalization and to work with foreign energy companies to capitalize on the country's nature-given resources, toward the late 1990s it finally began to move away ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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| 11 | |
2 The road to reform | 31 |
generals and presidents in a time of terror | 53 |
civil society peace and sidelining generals | 74 |
5 Energy and the economy of terror | 98 |
local and global jihadis | 122 |
from the GSPC to AQMI | 143 |
Algerias Rushdie syndrome | 169 |
a historians reflections on amnesty in Algeria | 195 |
Notes | 207 |
Index | 230 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Algeria since 1989: Between Terror and Democracy Global History of the Present |
| Auteur | James D. Le Sueur |
| Editie | geļllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1848135351, 9781848135352 |
| Lengte | 269 pagina's |
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